Word: bowness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bene! (Ital), hear, hear!, aha!; hurrah!; good!, fine!, excellent!, whizzo! (Brit), great!, beautiful!, swell!, good for you!, good enough!, not bad!, now you're talking!; way to go, attaboy!, attababy!, attagirl!, attagal!, good boy!, good girl!; that's the idea!, that's the ticket!; encore!, bis!, take a bow!, three cheers!, one cheer more!, congratulations...
When St. Petersburg built the Suncoast Dome in 1987, it aimed to be the first Florida city to attract a major league baseball team. The recession didn't stanch enthusiasm for the project. As assistant city manager Rick Dodge notes, in what sounds like a bow to Clintonomics: "Cities that are coming out of the recession are cities investing in the future." But this brave leap seemed to be over a cliff. Three times the majors took St. Pete to the altar, and three times the town was jilted: first with the Chicago White Sox, then with a prospective expansion...
Further face-offs seem inevitable. Iraq will continue to try to undermine the U.N. sanctions that hobble its economy; the U.S. and its allies will insist that Iraq bow to international law. In such a charged atmosphere, war by miscalculation cannot be ruled out. Nor can war by design. Some Clinton aides grimly await their "October surprise" -- a confrontation with Saddam that could rally the country around Bush and give him a boost at the polls on Election...
...measures Hussein has taken come too late to prevent Saddam from rebuilding his country. Jordan's belated bow to U.S. pressure reflects the monarch's sensitivity to the threat of Western political and economic retaliation. But he also calculates that Saddam could outlast George Bush. As long as he retains power, the Iraqi dictator is a potential menace to regional stability -- nowhere more so than in Jordan. "Smuggling in this country is an industry," concedes Finance Minister Jardeneh. Many Jordanians have come to view it also as a necessary form of insurance to placate the bully next door...
...I.O.C. that no one earn money strictly for an appearance in the Games is one indication of the enduring strength of the Olympic ideal. The fact that one non-N.B.A. basketball player, Christian Laettner, has been included on the American squad seems to be yet another bow to the notion of sport for its own sake. The gesture bespeaks an ambivalence -- one that will not soon vanish from the Games...