Word: fanaticism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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As the First Lady strode to the podium at the party convention and proceeded to defend a broad view of family and community, few in the audience were surprised. "When we speak of families," she said, "we mean extended families. We mean the neighbors, even the community itself." Yet this...
At some point too the motive and the forces of motiveless malignity converge; it doesn't matter whether an explosion is touched off by a fanatic or a mischief maker--the cause is buried by the effect. A bomb is like the physical equivalent of an insinuation--an anonymous, handwritten...
Society may change even faster in the next 25 years than it has in the last. Wills will preside over a much reduced list of who is "royal." And he will have to make the institution credible to the country while at the same time not stint on the elaborate...
Those who think it is too close are pinning their hopes on the Federal Reserve Board to cool the economy by raising interest rates more than bond traders already have. But the Fed at a meeting last week decided for the moment to do nothing. One reason: Chairman Alan Greenspan...
Yeltsin had called for contacts, through middlemen, with Dudayev. Even though the Chechen chief is dead and the fighting continues, such feelers with rebel leaders are still possible. But for the moment the outlook is not good. Dudayev's successor seems to be his vice president, Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, who has...