Word: drifting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...overreacting at the smallest perceived slight. "You got to earn your respect," says Salvador Nevarez, 23, who joined the Disciples at 13 but married two years ago and now works as a salesman for Montgomery Ward in Chicago. "There is no such thing as ever getting out. You just drift away." Nevarez is well into his ninth life. "I had a lot of shoot-outs, but I never got shot," he says appreciatively. His advice to the younger guys? "Only way for a young guy to get out is to get killed...
...President's difficulty in touting his foreign policy record is that there is one. While voters credit him -- with growing reservations -- for the Gulf War and maybe the Middle East peace talks, his statesmanship is afflicted with the same sense of drift and passivity as his domestic agenda. Clinton's & problem is that he is a tabula rasa on which a foreign agenda has yet to be written: Much is promised, but what will he deliver? Choosing between them looks like an act of faith. If there ever is a real debate over national security issues in this campaign...
Anyone who has been near the seashore lately -- or listened to Jacques-Yves Cousteau on TV -- knows that the oceans are a mess, littered with plastic and tar balls and rapidly losing fish. But the garbage dumps, the oil spills, the sewage discharges, the drift nets and factory ships are only the most visible problems. The real threats to the oceans, accounting for 70% to 80% of all maritime pollution, are the sediment and contaminants that flow into the seas from land-based sources -- topsoil, fertilizers, pesticides and all manner of industrial wastes. Coral is particularly sensitive to sediment...
They get my drift, they thank me, they take one more look at that 3.5%, and they call their brokers to buy mutual funds...
...traditions, among them the Southern Buddhist tradition, which focuses on breathing patterns. Their own method, they said, is a hybrid of several traditions. But, they said, the goal of any sort of meditation is to lose yourself, to become so detached from your everyday existence that your thoughts simply drift through your head without your becoming preoccupied by them. Eventually, they explained, you stop "thinking" all together...