Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...appeared red-eyed to tell the nation he had worked for years "to demonstrate that the standards of government and behavior in public life were going to be restored permanently." He admitted he had "fallen below those high standards" and had "to do something radical to restore people's faith in this Government...
...mission, while Baptists think they are the mission. Bill Clinton set out to pave a road to personal redemption with apology after apology after apology--all in his fashion, without saying precisely what he had done wrong. Hillary refocused on their life's plan. "Acting on our faith is never easy," she told the Methodist General Conference in 1996. "And it is often a test of our own resolve as much as anything else...
Considered that way, the nation's failure to rally around Starr is further proof of the general moral decay. It used to be an article of faith among conservatives that the natural goodness of the American people would be unleashed once we got the government off our backs. (Remember Newt Gingrich?) Lately, however, conservatives find themselves entertaining the opposite thought, that we have all become so heedless and self-regarding that we can no longer be relied upon to make moral judgments. This summer James Dobson, the Christian radio broadcaster, was all but calling for a new American people...
...knows anything." Of course, this couldn't be true in non-show business because if it were, what would be the point of listening to heavyweight economists and high-flying financial managers? Surely such people--and their very rich clients--know precisely what they're doing. Surely. But that faith didn't prevent penny-ante investors from enjoying a bit of Emperor's-new-clothes schadenfreude at the near collapse of Long Term Capital Management, the secretive multibillion-dollar hedge fund based in Greenwich, Conn...
...home country, the Dominican Republic, we have always taken great pride in our ability to survive tough times while staying true to our core values of family, faith and hard work. Sometimes it is an outside event, such as the devastation caused by Hurricane Georges last September, that inspires us to reach further inside ourselves and do our best. In the process, I think we learn something about ourselves that prepares us to be even stronger for our next challenge...