Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clinton used to be admirable for his downhill racer's reflexes and uncanny balance. After a while, it began seeming apt to remember Winston Churchill's line about Ramsey MacDonald. He is, said Churchill, the world's leading expert at falling down without hurting himself. Now it looks as if Clinton is prone to injury...
Awad's send-off and his long-delayed payoff are an apt reflection of the insensitive treatment too often meted out to foreign informants. Officials involved in Awad's case warn that if the U.S. fails to devise a coordinated approach for fostering informants during the long years of a terrorist prosecution, the trickle of foreign informants will dry up. That would be a situation the U.S. could ill afford. Typically, terrorist groups comprise people bound by geography, political injury, even bloodlines. Since U.S. agencies find it almost impossible to penetrate such tight-knit networks, they must rely on defectors...
...This is on everybody's lips," says Cordova mayor Margy Johnson. "Everyone's looking for a sense of closure. It's like there was a death in the family and we're waiting for the will to be read." It's apt to be a long sitting...
...this issue TIME publishes excerpts from that book, titled Beyond Peace. It is a kind of last testament from Richard Nixon. It is a tartly apt critique of American foreign policy. His timing was uncanny. The book arrives just as a welter of post-cold-war crises, from Bosnia to Korea, have thrown American policies into deepening disarray. And, as always, his focus on foreign affairs was designed to draw attention to the area of his presidency in which his accomplishments outweighed his failures...
...wouldn't want to apt someone one the backfor [evading] the by-laws, but I do see the meritin what Josh did this semester," Braswell says."The problem may not be with him, but with our bylaws...