Word: distantly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...hidden zone of operations in Iraq is less than noble. And it is the effect of power, far from the gaze of the microphone and camera, far from the critical and moralizing eye, and veiled from the force of law, that matters most. The actual, free exercise of power, distant from its dolled-up rhetorical intent, betrays and cancels the original intentions of its architects. The blood stains at Abu Ghraib, and the flattening of Falluja, and not the confident speeches of Rumsfeld and Bush, expose the true intentions of America’s extension of power...
What I do understand is that my grandmother, Edja, and her friends feel that their lives now are so drastically different than the ones they led in the not-so-distant past that they are emotionally irreconcilable. And the most resonant aspect of that reality, on a daily basis, is the loneliness of losing the lives they had with their parents, families, partners and children. As a 21-year-old college student who comes to Florida once yearly, I am expected to run to the beach, tan by the pool and generally kick back my polished feet and relax. Instead...
...flourishing mills and the four Super Bowl titles of the 1970s are distant memories in western Pennsylvania. But an energetic blue-collar ethos still engulfs the Steelers. At 6 ft. 5 in. and 241 lbs., the quarterback, 22, is built like a linebacker, or millworker, and fits in with the patrons at Jack's. Veteran running back Jerome Bettis took a $3.5 million pay cut so he could finish his career in Pittsburgh. And at a time when teams are bought and sold like ingots and coaches are fired at the drop of a pass, Steelers chairman Dan Rooney--whose...
...around. Even after the climactic battle to retake Fallujah in November, violence spiked in Mosul and Baghdad. Progress in reconstruction and political engagement is now measurable. Smart observers see flickers of hope in the possibility of elections next month. But the insurgents remain--increasingly organized, angry, yet still distant from any semblance of real power...
Wolfgang Bernhard says he "wanted to learn the business hands on, rather than be a remote-control, distant manager." So when he was sent by Daimler-Chrysler executives in Germany to help steer their struggling Chrysler unit in Detroit, Bernhard worked three days a month on the company's factory floor. Bernhard's innovations paid off: the company was the only U.S. carmaker to pick up market share this year. But when Bernhard opposed giving the troubled Mitsubishi unit an injection of $2 billion, he found himself without a job. Volkswagen quickly offered Bernhard a high-powered encore: as chairman...