Word: digging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Doctors diagnose adults with methods similar to those used with children. Patients are sometimes asked to dig up old report cards for clues to their childhood behavior -- an essential indicator. Many adults seek help only after one of their children is diagnosed. Such was the case with Chuck Pearson of Birmingham, Michigan, who was diagnosed three years ago, at 54. Pearson had struggled for decades in what might be the worst possible career for someone with ADD: accounting. In the first 12 years of his marriage, he was fired from 15 jobs. "I was frightened," says Zoe, his wife...
...from turning into a wise guy, comes harder for him. Now that Ted Danson is a movie star, or thinks he is, stupidity comes harder for him. Danson's character in Getting Even with Dad is supposed to be an inept thief, but the actor doesn't want to dig into dumbness, which is where the laughs, if any, might be. Untutored is the worst he'll allow himself to seem. Untutored, but capable of sensitivity, of love, of being a '90s beau ideal, if given a chance...
...decision that could dig deep into the Exxon Corp.'s pockets, an Alaska federal jury concluded that the oil giant was reckless in permitting a captain with a history of drinking to command the Exxon Valdez, the oil tanker that ran aground five years ago in Prince William Sound and caused the nation's worst oil spill. The verdict against Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood enables local residents to seek $1.5 billion in compensation and $15 billion in punitive damages...
...thought of his decision to campaign for the presidency as a "moral" one. "Circumstances," he writes, "placed me in a position of leadership at a critical moment in the life of my country." But that's what all politicians say. Vargas Llosa the writer is now willing to dig a bit deeper into his reasoning. "If the decadence, the impoverishment, the terrorism, and the multiple crises of Peruvian society had not made it an almost impossible challenge to govern such a country, it would never have entered my head to accept such a task." Could any motivation be more quixotic...
...lesson is clear: leaders who command repressive police states, and who couldn't care less about their citizens' economic status, dig in. If the prospect of military intervention is perceived as remote, they quickly come to believe that the will of the international community can be successfully ignored as long as there's money to be made in the smuggling business, which there always is. Local pride, too, often works to support those who defy sanctions; misplaced nationalism sometimes causes oppressed people to rally round their leaders rather than succumb to pressure from outsiders...