Word: bend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Treasury (Hamilton). Franklin Roosevelt saved capitalism under a cover of anticapitalist rhetoric. Dwight Eisenhower, under a bland exterior, conducted what historian Fred Greenstein calls a hidden-hand presidency. Other Presidents -- from Woodrow Wilson to Jimmy Carter -- were unsuccessful because they were not politicians, were not sufficiently able to bend themselves in order to bend others...
...question is, Why should they bother? Already, conservatives -- in a post-Soviet context, those who resist change in the old Kremlin ways -- have been staging a kind of "creeping coup." They have been worming their way into key positions in President Boris Yeltsin's administration and are beginning to bend policy toward continued, or even increased, state control of the economy. Crows Arkady Volsky, head of the anti-Yeltsin faction: "The policies of the reformist government are on the brink of collapse...
...green meadows and pine forests around Kozarac and Prijedor, stands of poplars, apple and plum orchards, haystacks and fields of unharvested corn and sunflowers evoke a peaceful pastoral dream. But along the road to Prijedor, a burned-out house suddenly appears around a bend. Then more follow, and more, maybe a thousand in all, relics of two-story, white-washed villas with broken red tile roofs. Windows are smashed, walls blackened by smoke. There are no shrapnel and bullet holes recording some battle here; this is what "ethnic cleansing" looks like a day or even an hour later. Laundry still...
...truth, even though they bought the system some time with blood on Tiananmen Square. The late Nicolae Ceausescu of Romania, a great friend of the Great Leader, provided a corollary: the more retrograde and repressive the regime, the more violent its fall. Its strength is brittle; it will not bend, but it will break. Open the door to a country like North Korea, and the whole house will fall down. The world can hope for a North Korean soft landing -- but it should be prepared for a crash...
...best interests of baseball." Which, if you have a high opinion of the sport, the office and yourself, can mean almost any power this side of martial law. This annoyed the barons of baseball; many of them have felt like Vincent's serfs, so reluctant has he been to bend to their pleasure. "He's supposed to be a CEO," said ESPN analyst Peter Gammons. "He's not a pope...