Word: golden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Optimists see every calamity as an opportunity," Rudy says, taking time out from a hectic day spent filling Internet orders for dried blueberries and other chaos-resistant delicacies. "Civilizations rise to the level of their incompetence," he goes on, "but personally I really believe there will be a new Golden Age afterward." In the spirit of other latter-day Candides who see the Y2K bug as a liberator, smashing the shackles of bad credit histories, staggering MasterCard bills and decades-old criminal records (and putting these folks on an equal financial footing with newly impoverished corporate CEOs), Rudy looks forward...
...region in anticipation of more challenges to the no-fly zones. For now, the White House will respond to each provocation by counterattacking the offending battery. The Pentagon has no doubt what Saddam is up to. He hopes one of the SAMs will find its target and that a "golden BB will get him an American pilot," says a U.S. general. It would be a prized bargaining chip in the standoff, but even if Saddam fails, "defiance is still more important than success," says Georgetown University expert Amatzia Baram. After enduring four days of U.S. bombing, "Saddam needs to show...
Probably not. Instead, we'll reach again for a time-tested moral notion, one sometimes called the Golden Rule and which Immanuel Kant, the millennium's most meticulous moralist, gussied up into a categorical imperative: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you; treat each person as an individual rather than as a means to some...
...developed. Blind luck will play an increasingly smaller role as scientists tease out the complex interplay between genes, proteins and the environment. There is going to be confusion--some setbacks and disappointments--at least at first. But most in the field agree that pharmaceutical research has finally entered its golden...
...date draws near, some custodians of San Francisco's landmarks are having second thoughts about being the theater of action for the four-day exercise, and last week the Presidio, a national park near the Golden Gate Bridge, withdrew permission to use its Baker Beach as a landing site. Something about 400 Marines storming up the shore with 20 five-ton trucks and two dozen 14-ton assault vehicles, and then engaging in pitched battle -- albeit simulated -- on the grounds didn't jibe with the Presidio's more family-oriented mandate as a national park. Undaunted, the best and bravest...