Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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History caught up with the honeymoon, and the history of the Franco-American relationship has been one of broad mood swings from mutual admiration to mutual acrimony. Both countries claim to embody universal ideals of liberty and human rights, making them kindred souls in terms of shared values but sharp rivals as global role models. Washington's post-cold war ability to throw its weight around often smacks of intimidation and diktat to the proud Gauls. France's response, along with periodic crowings about its own importance, has been to unite Europe as a counterweight to U.S. domination...
There were other murders in Los Angeles that day. Corrie Williams, a senior at Centennial High School in Compton, was killed riding a bus in South Central in broad daylight, in a place people expect such things to happen. It was allegedly committed by gang members, who, a Los Angeles Times survey found, commit about half the nearly 2,000 homicides in the city each year. As L.A. Mayor Richard Riordan was calling the Ennis Cosby murder "priority No. 1," Bill Cosby linked his son's death to the Compton case. In a phone call, he told police chief Williams...
...California are gearing up for a fight over a scarcely noticed proposal in Gov. Pete Wilson's welfare reform plan which would privatize some aspects of welfare administration. The Wilson plan, which would subcontract responsibility for screening welfare recipients and other functions to private corporations and charities, may have broad implications as other states look for ways of streamlining their welfare programs. Private contractors in California already do some welfare administration, such as bookkeeping, collection of delinquent child support payments and computerized record-keeping. If approved, the reform plan would give them the chance to bid on many jobs...
...team members lead the discussion. Gates quickly flips ahead through the deck of papers and within minutes has the gist of their report. He starts rocking, peppering them with questions that segue from the politics of their potential partners, the details of the technology, the potential competition and the broad strategy. The answers are crisp, even as Gates drills down into arcane details. No one seems to be showing off or competing for attention, but neither do any hesitate to speak up or challenge Gates. To a man (and they all are), they rock when they think...
...drill down." On a visit to Time Inc.'s new-media facility, he answered questions from a collection of magazine editors as if by rote, but on his way out he asked to see the Internet servers and spent 45 minutes grilling the claque of awed techies there. Broad discussions bore him, he shows little curiosity about other people, and he becomes disengaged when people use small talk to try to establish a personal rapport. Even after spending a lot of time with him, you get the feeling that he knows much about your thinking but nothing about such things...