Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week as she made her way quietly from Los Angeles to midtown Manhattan wearing a blond wig and dark glasses, it wasn't just her disguise at work. The girl we know so well, the one in the flirty beret on the Rose Garden rope line, is gone now, ground up by the machinery of investigation and fame. This new Monica is still warm, puts people at ease, pays attention to them when they speak, but she watches out for herself in a way she never had to before. The prosecutor whom she had viewed as a monster...
...floor office. The crux of their discussion that evening was what to do about Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his military commander, General Ratko Mladic. A senior French official who had recently returned from Bosnia had convinced Chirac that Mladic and Karadzic still controlled the situation on the ground and could derail the accords at any time...
...According to Charles Yesalis, a professor of sports science and senior author of the Penn State report, many young women view steroid use as a straightforward investment in their future. "Most of the time, after you stop taking steroids, you won't go back to ground zero," he explains. "If you keep working out, you could hang on to 80% of your gains." Aspiring athletes can take the hormones for a few months in high school, qualify for a lucrative college scholarship, then stop taking the drugs before sophisticated lab tests (which are beyond the reach of most high schools...
...says. "I looked to my right. I saw a guy with a gun. The first thing I thought was 'Duck!'" Brown says more shots were fired in a matter of seconds. "It was like a running gunfight." He saw the flash of a gun, then saw Chestnut on the ground bleeding heavily. "Officer down!" someone shouted. Angela Dickerson, a 24-year-old tourist from Virginia, was wounded in the face and shoulder. One man threw his wife to the ground and lay on top of her. Families were separated in the melee as they raced to find someplace to hide...
Which is bad news for Ward Connerly and his allies in the anti-affirmative action movement, who have prospered in recent years because the N.A.A.C.P. ceded them the moral high ground. Almost all efforts to increase minority participation in the workplace and on campus have been redefined by opponents as quotas and racial preferences. Lurid stories about white male job seekers or college applicants being passed over for less qualified blacks or women have been accepted as the norm, even though many of the tales turned out to be bogus. Yet the N.A.A.C.P. was in such disarray that it couldn...