Word: cravings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stakes this May 29 were manifest, nothing less than a referendum on Arab-Israeli peace and the course that could change the region's political, cultural and economic character, perhaps forever. At issue was not peace vs. security: all Israelis crave both, and each candidate vowed he could deliver both, if by vastly different means. For voters the choices resolved themselves into something deeply psychological: hope vs. fear, opportunity vs. peril, a plunge into a risky future or an overhasty abandoning of the familiar, go-it-alone past. Was it wise to put faith in the dream of Nobel Peace...
...Clinton admitted he would consider repealing it. The rapid-response game is working so well for him that he can afford to concede Dole the substantive points and still come out ahead politically. Which means that even if Dole can lay out an agenda that voters might crave, it won't matter if he can't get it to the table while it's still...
...taken Italian? I guess you can take day trips to Florence from England, but most likely you will just shrug your shoulders and say, "Oh well, maybe when I graduate." And yet, there is no way to know as a first-year that in two years you might desperately crave a break from oh-so-suffocating Harvard and crimson-tainted Cambridge...
Hardy souls who crave still more detail on the current tobacco wars may want to dip into The Cigarette Papers (University of California Press; 539 pages; $29.95), a new study of the Brown & Williamson documents that were leaked to antismoking activist Stanton Glantz. Next month will also see the publication of Smokescreen: The Truth Behind the Tobacco Industry Cover-Up (Addison-Wesley; 288 pages; $22) by New York Times reporter Philip J. Hilts...
...face of it, exhibit "integrity" by zipping through the three-step program before turning on the gas. In which case "integrity" wouldn't be much more than an accessory, like a walking stick or a pipe, designed to impart some of that ineffable quality we all seem to crave--gravitas...