Word: drift
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...chart its own course, pursuing American interests and setting its own priorities whether the rest of the world goes along or not. And that could mean a reorientation in the Atlantic relationship. On a range of security and foreign-policy issues, the future seems to augur continental drift, if not an outright split. Though bound together by a military alliance and $1 billion in daily trade, Europe and the United States are increasingly marching to different beats?and there will be moments when the Bush Administration will pump up the volume. ?The new administration has experienced people...
...scene so breathtaking it will no doubt earn a place in the cinematic pantheon. Dazzling in red costumes against a pale yellow sun, the two women ballet rather than battle it out, leaping over the treetops and chasing each other's dress trains, while leaves, fanned by the wind, drift down like confetti tossed by an admiring god. It's as though Zhang took a French impressionist canvas for a backdrop and spooled it onto the lens - a Monet brought to life by two dancing scarlet brushes...
...some Adams karma seems to drift through the American political conscience from time to time - a stiffening breeze, or maybe just a wistful reference on the wind. Go back to 1956. Look at the preface to Senator John F. Kennedy's book called "Profiles in Courage." It begins: "Since first reading - long before I entered the Senate - an account of John Quincy Adams and his struggle with the Federalist party, I have been interested in the problems of political courage in the face of constituent pressures, and the light shed on those problems by past statesmen...
Best of all, the man knew his audience. He didn't rail against our lack of an attention span; he played to it. The minute that big, easily bored, sugar-fueled baby that is the American public started to drift off, he'd grab a straw hat and a banjo and somehow get us back. And so we never turned him off. We sat and watched, grinning and glassy-eyed, waiting expectantly to see what the funny man with the fat red nose would do next...
...scenario. At the moment, though, most experts are more optimistic. Despite the capacity strains, they don't think the oil pinch will get anywhere near so bad. Indeed, in the absence of a Middle East war or some other unforeseen calamity, the price of crude is expected to drift down after the winter peak-demand period, perhaps to less than $30 per bbl. by spring and even into the low-$20 range by the end of 2001. Says Yergin, one of the country's foremost experts on the energy supply: "We should see the fundamentals of supply and demand reassert...