Word: drift
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...high-tech, anti-piracy CDs by coloring the discs' edges with a decidedly low-tech magic marker. Prodi Gets Direct n European Commission President Romano Prodi surprised friends and foes alike by calling for direct E.U. taxation. The proposal has already met resistance in France, Britain and Germany. Subcontinental Drift n Bombay's stock market tumbled to a year's low as India and Pakistan ramped up their war threats. When this happened in 1999 the index quickly rebounded to gain 26%, but a fragile world economy may prevent such optimism this time around...
...more complex. It not only sets an example for the kind of partner a girl may choose as she gets older but also affects the way she sees herself. Recent research, however, indicates that even fathers and daughters who are close during the early years tend to drift apart as girls hit their teens. That's partly why a growing number of dads like King, dissatisfied with being distant onlookers in their daughters' lives, are finding ways to be more involved by spending more time with their girls and trying to see the world through their eyes...
...talking about messages the media send to girls about how their bodies should look. The week before, a guest speaker talked about domestic violence. And the week before that, the group learned to swing dance. "My daughter is at a tender age. As girls get older, they can drift away a bit, and I don't want that to happen to us," says King, 48, a photo editor. Katie looks forward to leaving her younger sister and mother at home one night a week for some alone time with Dad. "Every week, we go out to dinner before the meeting...
...Arafat proves, as a senior European diplomat puts it, that "the period of relative simplicity when the line between good and evil could be drawn with confidence has ended." The moral-clarity crowd--from American conservatives to Israeli politicians like Benjamin Netanyahu--spent last week lamenting this new drift in American policy...
...Jumping from year to year and narrator to narrator in a patchwork style that mirrors his cluttered subject matter, Downing chronicles the predictable drift from the heady promise of Zen Center's early days to the sourness and disillusionment that followed its growth into a spiritual brand name. As Zen Center's membership and renown increased, so too did Baker's sense of self-importance and entitlement. In 1971, Suzuki died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 69. Before he did so, he established Baker as his sole American dharma heir, making him the uncontestable arbiter of Zen Center...