Word: flourish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Outdoor types flourish in Arkansas. Those who can avoid being shot by one of the abundant hunters, including, on occasion, President Bush, will find a chance to put all of that L.L. Bean equipment to use. A Jeffersonian pastoralism still prevails among the natives of these rural areas; some call it backwardness, but the attitude remains...
Appearing before the cameras at 10 o'clock, the President looked somber, and his sentences were plain, devoid of any rhetorical flourish. Harking back to a Friday-morning appearance in the bright sunshine of the Rose Garden, he remarked that he had given Saddam Hussein "one last chance . . . to do what he should have done more than six months ago: withdraw from Kuwait without condition or further delay." Saddam, he said, had responded only with "a redoubling" of efforts "to destroy completely Kuwait and its people" -- a reference to the "scorched earth" torching of oil wells and systematic executions...
...this New Paradigm, as some say, only a bright intellectual flourish meant to cover the retreat of the Federal Government from almost everything? "No," says Pinkerton, "it is an intellectual construct to make things work. It is a way of thinking about change and making it rational. I have never said we should cut spending. The conventional wisdom around Washington is that nothing works. Americans don't believe...
...think terrorism will stay with us. It might flourish at times and become very much less of a threat at other times. But if we solve the Arab-Israeli problem, solve the Palestinian problem, we will drastically reduce its impact in the Middle East...
...education." That, experts agree, needs to change. As the U.S. population ages rapidly, diabetes, which already costs the nation $20 billion a year, is expected to become increasingly common. And since rising affluence and obesity go hand in hand, the disease can be expected to take root and flourish in developing countries, where it is now rare. In the coming years, every penny spent educating patients about this terrible disease could help save health- care dollars and prevent incalculable suffering...