Word: calling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...given point during the summer, you might find me dusty and sunburnt, defending my integrity to a host of complainers over a call such as that one. There's always that scrawny kid in a oversized uniform, asking me if I "need glasses." There's always that balding coach in a tank-top and Bermuda shorts, telling me I "had no angle." And there's always that prim mother in a sun dress, wondering why I won't just "let the kids play ball." Sometimes there's even a little sister with a blue popsicle tongue, declaring that I "suck...
Northeast Arkansas is very rural, with miles between some houses, but the word neighbor isn't circumscribed by geography here. Within 20 minutes of the first 911 call, a radio station began asking for blood donations. Quickly a second facility was set up. That evening, as a hundred would-be donors waited at both locations, the station had to ask people to stay home. All the banks opened accounts for donations pouring in for the victims. White has become the color of Jonesboro's grief--and community. The entire town and virtually every citizen wears white ribbons, as if sins...
...nominee and will almost certainly go along with Kiriyenko. The communists who dominate the parliament are complaining that he is too young and too inexperienced. But they are expected to accept him in due course. If they reject the President's choice three times, Yeltsin can dissolve parliament and call new elections. Most members of the Duma will not want to risk their jobs on the issue, so they might vote against Kiriyenko once or twice, then accept...
...sale makes Bertelsmann, based in Gutersloh, Germany, the leader in American publishing. It's just more evidence that in a world of global-media companies, assets don't care what address they call home. Bertelsmann, known for its hands-off reputation with its other U.S. publishing division, Bantam Doubleday Dell (BDD), will maintain the Random House name and keep the editorial operation independent. But the new two-volume division will get much greater leverage with agents, authors and booksellers...
...being eroded by the lowering of trade barriers, the increase in foreign investment and the rapid integration of capital markets that is being driven by computers and cheap communications. Governments simply have less say over what happens in their domestic economies. In our new book, The Commanding Heights, we call this shift globality, the next step beyond globalization. It describes the high-velocity interconnected world economy in which the familiar borders are being surmounted or made irrelevant...