Word: centralizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...contrast, this year was party central. It started two hours after the Clintons landed in Martha's Vineyard, with a 53rd birthday party for the President given by First Friends Ann and Vernon Jordan and featuring such Vineyard A-listers as the Washington Post's Katharine Graham and Miramax co-chief Harvey Weinstein. It continued last weekend in the Hamptons, where Hurricane Hillary and her husband swept in on Saturday to be feted by Robert De Niro and designer Vera Wang, among others...
...course, building a country that works is not as simple as just stripping muscle off the central authority. In a time of crisis, especially, the capital has to function. And though Ecevit's government talks about devolving power, it still needs to learn to actually do it. Turks have been talking for years about the importance of learning to do things for themselves, figuring out how to live without the government. Last week, as they buried their loved ones and scavenged their hopes, they were at last working on their...
...Angeles campus. Not only do more than half of U.S.C.'s students volunteer to work in the poorer neighborhoods near their school, but students in courses ranging from landscape architecture to dentistry also apply their knowledge toward solving community problems. Not every college in America has South Central L.A. as a laboratory, but almost every school can do more to help its immediate neighbors--and teach its students more in the process...
...discount-store chain, he paused. Ron Johnson, who runs the home-decor division for Target, suggested Graves stroll one of the company's 800 or so stores and place a Post-it note on every product that needed improvement. Replied the man who recently designed the award-winning Denver Central Library: "I'm not sure there are enough Post-it notes in the world...
...take more than Holbrooke?s powers of persuasion to bring the KLA into line, since the rebel group knows that the last thing NATO wants is a confrontation. "The U.N. can?t succeed unless the peacekeeping force can ensure security, and that really depends on NATO," says TIME Central Europe bureau reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. "But if the whole Kosovo mission turns out to be a dramatic failure, it?s clear that Washington is going to blame it on the U.N." That?s not something international diplomats will take lying down, since the U.S. strenuously avoided even discussing the matter...