Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were true to his beliefs, he should welcome the hangman (or hypodermic man). For years, the book he has cherished is The Turner Diaries, a fictional account of an uprising by a courageous band of white supremacists. Earl Turner, the hero, does not flinch at the idea of dying for his cause. Indeed, in the book's final pages he joyfully embraces this fate. "Brothers!" he says, addressing an elite group called the Order. "When I entered your ranks for the first time, I consecrated my life to our Order and to the purpose for which it exists...
...historians are beginning to suspect that the peaceful run we've enjoyed may be a persistent blessing, not just a passing respite from carnage. In an essay last year, then Secretary of Defense William Perry argued for "defense in an age of hope"--a military policy based on the idea that peace is sustainable, perhaps less reliable than the sun but more constant than the weather. Around the world the ineluctable algebra of economic and political liberalization (less war = more money) is catching on. At the start of 1997, none of the planet's 179 nations was shooting at another...
...older boomers get, the more they worry about food quality. "McDonald's got obsoleted on their food," says Malcolm M. Knapp, a food-industry consultant based in Manhattan. "For a long time, it was good enough to be consistent and clean. Now America wants taste." That was the idea behind the Arch Deluxe, which the company unveiled last year after extensive testing, promoting the product as a burger for grownups. It bombed. Arch Deluxe failed to deliver on the taste front. Says franchisee LuAnn Perez, one of the company's harshest critics: "We were going to make a sign that...
...policy and interest rates away from their sovereign nations and turn it over to a European Central Bank, starting 19 months from now. Then in 2002 the familiar mark, franc, guilder and several other currencies will disappear and will be replaced by the euro, with a small e. The idea is to curb inflation, eliminate the risks of up-and-down exchange rates and harmonize the member states' fiscal behavior. But the idea behind that is more political than economic: that consultations on numbers will evolve into decision making in concert, first on domestic policies and then in the foreign...
...wants to make Iran's leaders aware that he's open to dialogue as long as it includes the issues that concern the U.S., so at his London press conference Clinton pointedly praised Iranians as "a very great people" and wished that "estrangements can be bridged." "It was his idea," says a senior official. "He thought that was the proper way to use the election results for our own purposes, rather than a sterile recapitulation of our existing position...