Word: beckon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only difference in the 1990s is that we find out about the undersides of our presidents immediately, instead of decades after the fact. Yet this analysis is too simple; it is equally fair to say that the demands put upon politicians today, particularly in the area of fundraising, beckon increasing levels of whoredom...
...just four years ago, The Winter Olympics were a setting for scandal and controversy and tabloid headlines, all Nancy and Tonya, catty remarks and vainglorious ambition. What a difference an Olympiad makes. Now, in a near rustic city in Japan, the Games beckon once again as a refuge from the snares of the world, where the tawdry can be banished (alas, except for commercial logos) and where the most compelling mysteries involve the intricacies of quad jumps, clap skates, luge weight and curling. For Nagano is robed in that symbol of purity: snow, unsullied and ready for the pursuit...
...Administration deserves much applause for its efforts in the past five years, but to leave it at that would beckon, as Rudenstine wrote in his Feb. 11 letter, "complacency or self-satisfaction." The President concluded his letter with the following inspiring statement: "Continued progress will depend on...ensuring that promising women scholars receive careful attention in the context of individual searches; sustaining a climate that is supportive of women and attentive to their concerns, both in reality and in perception; creating organizational structures, processes and incentives conducive to identifying and appointing outstanding tenured women; broadening and reinforcing the pathways...
...must plod ahead and enjoy my remaining time here. The last snowy reading period, the carefree afternoons and my good friends (and my thesis) beckon to me. Someday, perhaps at our 25th reunion, perhaps sooner, we'll look back and laugh. We'll wonder why we worried so much about the future, which in retrospect will seem to have been quite clear. We will reach a point when those frantic high school days will have truly passed from existence, to rear their ugly head no more. We will have proven ourselves and we will be satisfied. After all, we went...
...push hard at emphasizing the different views of life in Israel. Labor's spots glow with the benefits of the peace process. Happy, smiling Israelis are shown cavorting amid prosperity; youngsters speed down a highway in a yellow convertible while the Golden Arches of the newly arrived McDonald's beckon. The images in the Likud ads stress the flaws in the current peace: a bus decimated by a suicide bomber, a burning car hit by a Hizballah Katyusha...