Word: calms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...POST OF U.N. SECRETARY-GENERAL MAY WELL BE ONE OF THE world's most thankless jobs. Whoever holds it is somehow expected to do the impossible: calm crises around the world, search for compromise among a welter of contending national agendas, enforce international agreements -- and do it all with seemingly never sufficient resources...
CONSIDER FOR A MOMENT THE FInancial circumstances of an up-and-coming colleague or neighbor. Owns a nice house? Drives a new car? Dines out a lot? Appears calm even when discussing college tuition or the latest property-tax hike? Now take a good guess at his or her income. If it doesn't add up to the outgo, it's likely that the shortfall is being covered by one of the most important -- but little discussed -- determinants of baby-boomer wealth in the 1990s: family inheritance...
...Order cannot be restored permanently until the country's thugs are separated from their sophisticated caches of weapons, which range from AK-47s to surface-to-air missiles and technicals, the Mad Max vehicles mounted with heavy machine guns and antiaircraft weapons. Residents do not mistake Mogadishu's relative calm for peace; they know that the thugs have simply redeployed to the bush...
...fact, it has probably been with Harvard long time. One can imagine, in that light, the true sacrifice that the Boston Tea Party was for students at the time. As patriotic Americans were hurling boxes of tea into Boston Harbor, doubtlessly there were Harvard students nearby desperately screaming for calm rationality: "What the hell are you people doing? You're a mob out of control! Sure we should make sacrifices for independence, but this is suicide...
...understanding of the Russian character must inevitably begin with the land, which covers roughly one-sixth of the globe. Historian Vasili Klyuchevsky speculated that the vast sweep of Russia's steppes and forests induced "a ghastly feeling of imperturbable calm and deep sleep, of loneliness conducive to abstract, sad musing without any clearly defined thought." Russians seem so overwhelmed by the sheer enormousness of their country that they would rather settle down by a warm stove, break out a bottle of vodka and muse about life than go out and plow a furrow toward the endlessly receding horizon. A leading...