Word: dominos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, it's the fear of being caught napping; if there's one thing the 20th century has taught us, it's not to display hubris in the face of an apparently diminishing threat. But mostly Washington is worried--again, not for the first time this century--about a domino effect...
...famous standardized test, the SAT (presently named Scholastic Assessment Test, formerly Scholastic Aptitude Test), provides the best example of the potential emotional harm to students. According to a report in last month's Newsweek, the long-term effects of the SAT are not negligible. This takes into account the domino-effect theories linking SAT scores to success in life, and the wide range of fields (including unlikely areas such as real estate) that are indirectly influenced to some degree by the SAT. A considerable number of students--the overwhelming majority of the private school population--are beginning...
...goals started coming and they just had a domino effect," Kalil said. "We were very calm, we knew what we had to accomplish, and we did a good job testing the waters...
...tiny country, whose Portuguese colonial administration had collapsed. In fact, President Gerald Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had been in Jakarta the day before Indonesian troops went in. With South Vietnam having collapsed only eight months earlier, Washington wasn't about to see another Asian domino fall to the communists. The murder and mayhem wrought by the Indonesian forces may have been distasteful, but Indonesia had been the anchor of Western interests in Asia. So East Timor had to wait for the end of the Cold War and then some before democracy could be allowed to take...
Already, two people who have seen her reading Power--a woman in the subway and the stylist who works the chair next to hers--have decided to order their own. "You know," Walters says, "it's a domino...