Word: devil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...didn't claim that women were morally superior. But they had been at the receiving end of prejudice long enough, we thought, to empathize with the underdog of either sex. Then too, the values implicit in motherhood were bound to clash with the "male values" of competitiveness and devil-may-care profiteering. We imagined women storming male strongholds and, once inside, becoming change agents, role models, whistle-blowers. The hand that rocks the cradle was sure to rock the boat...
...DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS...
...once said something like "all money in the service of good is good," but he never explained exactly how far that logic extends. For example, would Bok sell his soul to the devil for a million dollar professorship...
...involvement by outsiders in their affairs. This is aggravated by the fact that the main foreign player in the region now is the U.S., the No. 1 supporter of Israel. "In the minds of certain groups," acknowledges a member of the Saudi royal family, "the U.S. is the devil incarnate...
Once upon a time, the nation's leaders tried to exorcise the deficit devil with a frightful fairy tale: if they couldn't find the wisdom and courage to reduce spending and raise revenue themselves, a crude wrecking ball would knock many billions from government programs. The threat of an indiscriminate "sequester" of funds, the story went, would be so politically devastating as to scare the government into facing its fiscal responsibilities. That fantasy, in the form of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act five years ago, projected a balanced budget by fiscal 1991, which begins Oct. 1. But the brutal...