Word: benignant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dose of fear that would have chilled Roosevelt in '32. Biggs, it seems, had just come back from the Far East, and he was terrified by what he saw. He invoked all the bearish icons: the Great Depression, the Crash of '29 (I guess '87 seemed too benign), 40%-to-50% declines ahead in emerging markets, and, of course, the long-awaited great bear market in the U.S. Sure, he threw in a couple of caveats, but the tone was all scare. You could see the market aflame even before Biggs had finished spraying lighter fluid. Within minutes I heard...
...family story is one of distinction and poignant drama. Her great-grandfather H.H. Asquith was Prime Minister in the very years (1908-16) when so many of her films are set. Her father, a Harvard business school graduate, was a successful banker until, after an operation for a benign brain tumor, he suffered a paralyzing stroke. Helena has her looks from her mother, a psychotherapist of Franco-Spanish-Austro-Russian-Jewish ancestry. She lived with her parents until she was 30, when she bought an apartment a few minutes from their London home. "I'm not stretching the umbilical cord...
...formed a China-bashing alliance, and groups with a host of complaints about issues from human rights to trade browbeat the Administration to treat China as a pariah. Like Jiang, Clinton has to persuade his countrymen that the People's Republic is less communist than they fear and more benign than they think if he is to pursue an effective policy of engagement. As Clinton said in a speech last week, "For good or ill," China will shape our future...
...Getty is a clear, benign and somewhat remote presence in coastal Los Angeles, the Guggenheim Museum has hit Bilbao with the force of an architectural meteorite. No question that it's there. You are walking through the pleasantly undistinguished, mainly 19th century streets of its quarter; you turn a corner, and--pow!--an apparition appears in glass and half-shiny silver (titanium, actually), massively undulating, something that seems at first glance to have been dropped from another cultural world between the gray townscape and the green hills that rise behind it. Not since Joern Utzon's 1973 design...
...Greenspan was making no apologies. Throwing up walls against interconnection would "dramatically lower our standard of living" and "cause stagnation." The U.S. economy, he said, was robust ? and the fluctuations of an exciting few days were benign and born of a simple truth: "You can't bet 1,000 percent in investment decisions." So relax, everybody, and buy on the dips...