Word: fulfillingness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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A. It's a self-fulfilling hypothesis. If you scare people enough and make them believe the world is crumbling around them, at some point they'll start reacting. The news media have helped set the tone of rabid crime, and the politicians just pick up the theme and go...
LIKE THE OVERFLOWING WATERS OF THE MISSISSIPPI, TIME's flood-coverage team spread out across the land last week. It was obvious to Midwest bureau chief Jon Hull that a major disaster required a major effort, and he divvied up a wide range of assignments. Correspondent Elizabeth Taylor headed off...
Sum up the lessons in maxims, and the ideas seem simple. All news is local. An inoffensive newspaper is not fulfilling its true responsibilities. A newspaper should try to lead its readers to improve the community. A newspaper should have the courage to be critical.
Frustrating too, particularly when it comes to fulfilling the expectations of a populace impatient to see political power translated into a more equitable distribution of resources. "People have suffered so much that they now expect the opposite," says Harry Gwala, a senior member of Mandela's African National Congress in...
"It's a self-fulfilling prophecy," says Patty Flannery, a New York-based attorney who specializes in Title IX cases. "If you say the interest isn't there and don't provide the opportunity, who's going to want to play that sport?"