Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...personal well-being that they otherwise wish to pursue without interference. As the pollsters keep discovering, they care about education, HMO reform and shoring up Social Security. They also want a Congress that operates effectively on those matters and a President who's a bit like a mayor, a ground-level problem solver, even...
...next morning Gingrich held a gripe session by conference call, letting others vent about everything: the Republicans' utter absence of a message, the Democrats' lethally effective get-out-the-vote effort. "They were unbelievable," one of the leaders said to Newt. "They kicked our ass on the ground." Gingrich was mostly quiet. He listened. "He was in a state of shock," says one participant. It was different an hour later during the "listen only" conference call with members. This time Newt talked a lot, but he made no sense. He blamed the election on the unions, on black turnout driven...
...Honduras, Mitch spawned the worst floods in 200 years. The waters may have killed more than 5,000 people and left 11,000 missing. As Vice President William Handel helicoptered over the deluged Ulua River valley, he saw three people trapped on a patch of high ground, waving frantically. The waters rose so fast that the chopper couldn't land--and Handel, just yards away, watched them drown, tossed like rag dolls in the current...
...topics in the book is accurate, easily understandable and skillfully interlaced with the personal stories behind the scientific discoveries that he discusses. But when, toward the end of the book, Aczel turns to statistics to argue in favor of the existence of extraterrestrial life, he moves onto shaky ground. The statistical constructs that Aczel presents are valid, but the conclusions that he makes based on those constructs are much more speculative than Aczel admits...
...column (Nov. 2), it sounds as though Hugh P. Liebert intends to sum up the decades-old debate over gay and lesbian civil rights in 1,000 words or less. But by flattening the views of gay-rights advocates into a few narrow stereotypes, he undercuts the high ground he tries so hard to attain...