Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Syrian talks may stumble over the security arrangements Israel demands, notably limited-troop zones around the Golan and access to intelligence from a monitoring station there. At the same time, Israeli-Palestinian negotiations are famously immune to deadlines. The lives of the two peoples have overlapped too long to be untangled easily. What's more, a deal on one front may make an accord on another harder to sell to concession-weary Israelis. That should all be plenty to keep Barak wide awake...
...matter." Today I hear those words often, always in his voice. David Ogilvy was far more than a Hall of Fame copywriter. He became an icon and a brand. His legacy will be one of brilliance, complexity, flair, passion and proof that enduring values can indeed travel around the world. The strength of David's guiding principles, his respect for the consumer's intelligence and his determination to have truth be central to the commercial success of his agency, Ogilvy & Mather, made it possible for following generations of advertising agencies to prosper. By carefully disseminating his beliefs, David changed...
...says. "I was in the first generation that was taught the river was unsafe--not because of tides that might pull you down but because of water quality. As a young adult, I found a legacy I had been kept from inheriting. The lives of my family had swirled around the river; my grandfather was a fisherman; that's where families gathered. I discovered that connection. But then there was a larger connection. It seemed that every community on the river had lost touch with it and with the notion that the river was their home. The greatest single tragedy...
...beauty of my job," says Cronin, "is that it allows me to be in touch with the rhythms of the river and to understand what it means to fit the rhythms of your life around those other rhythms. When you are a fisherman, one of the rhythms is the tide. To fish for shad, you go out two hours before high tide, but every day the hours change. One week you're having breakfast at 7 a.m., the next at 2 in the afternoon. And all this extends to life on the shore, to the people who come down...
...Aquifer. As her eyes catch the gleam of water destined to salve the thirst of people in Lincoln, Neb., 20 miles away, she begins to jump up and down in the heat of a summer afternoon. "This is so cool!" she exults. "I get so excited when I'm around groundwater...