Word: feelings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tested. Japan has made admirable strides to restrict the trade, but its long-term stand remains a wild card. "We, of course, pay close attention to other countries' opinions," said a spokesman for the Japanese government. "We have not fixed our position." The Japanese have every right to feel that many Western nations have shifted their stance rather abruptly. Until its recent trade curbs, the U.S. bought one-third of Hong Kong's ivory products...
...living covet the vast habitats set aside for animals and cannot understand why scarce financial resources go to protect elephants while people go hungry. To many Africans, the elephant is a five-ton nuisance that can trample a season's maize in seconds. As long as they feel that way, they will turn a blind eye to poaching. Revenues from tourism and safaris have yet to improve the lot of the African people enough to win them over to wildlife management...
Braden provides just that. At the college, he rewards good performance with cheers and compliments like "Keep that up, and you'll be famous by Friday." Slow learners feel comforted by his gentle way of identifying with their struggle to improve. "Don't forget," he tells his charges, "every day 2 million Americans play tennis and 1 million of them lose...
...north you find the purest African rhythms, some of the most innovative in Brazil." Notes Byrne: "Bahia may be to Brazil what New Orleans was as the birthplace of jazz -- a source of musical ideas that are later refined into new styles." Brazilian music, he explains, allows him to feel "the direct link between the ecstatic release of rhythmically based popular songs and the spirituality that is ((at)) their roots...
...triumphant fist waving, Noriega could hardly feel reassured by last week's events. The rebellion was the second failed attempt against him by the Panamanian military in the past 18 months, raising questions about whom the general can trust among his forces. Although a housecleaning of the P.D.F. will follow, Noriega can no longer count on even his inner circle. "This was no gringo plot," says a source close to Noriega. "This came from the general's inner core." That much, at least, can give Panamanians -- and Washington -- hope that Noriega's days are numbered...