Word: dormant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...success in using savage advertising against liberal Senate candidates. But 12 years of Republican Presidents and the end of the cold war have drained enthusiasm -- and money -- from the conservative movement, particularly where helping Bush is concerned. Some of the most spirited groups of 15 years ago have become dormant...
...child's smile, lighting up as he enters Euro Disneyland, knows no language barrier. Nor does the thrill of fear scooting up a young French spine at the sight of Monstro the Whale at Les Voyages de Pinocchio or the dragon in Le Chateau de la Belle au Bois Dormant (Sleeping Beauty's Castle). When a kid alights from the Big Thunder Mountain railway and exclaims "Genial!" everyone nearby can tell he means "Awesome!" You need no French diploma to read a gamine's serene exhaustion when she staggers out on penguin legs at the end of a 12-hour...
Death stalks me this year, distorting my sight. The death of my uncle overwhelmed my Christmas and my whole winter break. A friend's grandmother entered the hospital recently, weakened by a heart attack. And a long-dormant friendship rekindled soon after because of another death...
...prized, Skinner became the preferred troubleshooter. He managed the Administration's response to the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the Eastern Air Lines strike, Hurricane Hugo and the 1989 California earthquake. Now Skinner's task is to cut dead weight from the White House staff and reawaken the Administration's dormant domestic policy and public relations operation. His appointment has worried some conservatives, who relied on Sununu to take their side in most fights. But Skinner, who has recently applied his charms to the right, insists that he is "as conservative as any conservative" and adds that "Bush's programs...
...success. I can have students go through an experimental paradigm in a lab, and they will show cracks under the stress of success. But there are also identifiable developmental influences that render some individuals more susceptible than others to self-sabotage. They are like a virus that lies dormant unless it's given the right environment to flourish. What causes the germ seed of the "healthy" narcissist to explode is really the success beyond which he or she can't comfortably proceed. It creates a level of arrogance at which some of them, such as a Gutfreund or Levine, cease...