Word: frayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Buell seems willing to leap into the administrative fray. He notes that his newcomer status may both help and hurt him. "I have more to learn in the way of history, so that's a disadvantage," Buell says. "On the other hand, by not being bound so much to history, I may at times see things in usefully different ways...
...supporters, the political world is a mess. Gridlock and stagnation rule the day. The only people with voices are the special interests represented by the Washington lobbyists who are corrupting our glorious democratic system. Perot is the White Knight--ready to ride in from his outsider, above-the-fray, private-sector perch and purify democracy...
...made for athletes and, in the words of a Coke spokesman, "anyone who works up a sweat." At PepsiCo, Inc., plans are well under way for a summer rollout of its new drink for jocks and those who aspire to be: All Sport. Other large companies are entering the fray with similar products -- Dr Pepper/Seven-Up with a drink called Nautilus, and A&W Brands, Inc., with a player yet to be named...
...Kosovo blows, so may Macedonia, where there is a large Albanian population. That could trigger an intervention from Greece, which takes a mischievously proprietary interest in the birthplace of Alexander the Great. Greece's involvement could, in turn, provoke its old antagonist Turkey to enter the fray, and history really will have come full circle...
NEUTRALITY CERTAINLY HAS ITS BENEFITS. BY STAYing above the fray in their landlocked mountain state, the Swiss have managed to stay out of international . conflicts while establishing themselves as the world's private bankers. But last week the governing Federal Councilors announced that they will apply for membership in the European Community. Emboldened by a recent popular vote that approved joining the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, the government moved quickly to cash in on an emerging approval of multinational organizations among its citizens...