Word: clings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seem fated to continue doing both at once. Given that, political leaders have the option either of exploiting racial tensions by ranting about quotas or of trying to help all Americans understand that a true meritocracy is impossible as long as we cling to racial stereotypes. It may be comforting to pretend that quotas lie at the root of America's racial problems. Yet deep down we probably all know that if the truth were so simple, quotas would not even be an issue...
Couched at the top of one of countless waterfalls that bathe the southeastern foothills of the Peruvian Andes, I enjoy the cool breath of the cascade, which takes the edge off the equatorial sun. From nearby promontories, an observer can look upward to the cloud forests that cling to the mountainous rim of the Amazon basin, or down into the steamy lowland rain forests that extend thousands of miles to the east. As far as the eye can see and beyond, there are no villages, roads or towns. Lying below is the Manu, a 7,000-sq.-mi. area...
...southeast of Moscow -- behind concrete walls, barbed wire and a sign reading FORBIDDEN ZONE -- sprawls the Central Aerohydrodynamics Institute. Employing 10,000 scientists and technicians, the research center combines the theoretical study of aerodynamics with practical experiments on airplanes and spacecraft. In one hangar-size workshop, stress- testing sensors cling like barnacles to prototypes of the new MiG-31 fighter and the next generation of Soviet civilian airliners, the Tu-204 and Il-114. Nearby is the T-128 transonic wind tunnel, where the space shuttle Buran and the Energiya booster rocket were tested with airstreams driven...
Unlike poker, this is a game where strategy is not only unnecessary but totally useless. "It's all probability," says Lee Isgur, a leading gaming and entertainment analyst at Volpe, Welty & Co. in San Francisco. Still, players cling to the idea that their own system will work: playing at a certain time of day, stroking good-luck charms or punching the buttons at a certain speed...
...have rafts that we cling to in bad weather -- consolations, little solidarities, numbers we dial, people we wake up in the middle of the night...