Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...million because of the strike, Gannett and Knight-Ridder won't give in to settlement even by arbitration. These are national newspaper chains; they are dedicated to serving up a profit-making product, much as McDonald's dishes out greased buns. People love it, but they've no idea of the impact of digesting such trash. A corporation has little allegiance to any particular city; its business exist solely for financial gain and care little if at all about the community they serve...
...land where every Jewish life is counted precious, there could be no greater horror. And when the victim was also the Prime Minister whose brave policies of peace have torn the populace in two, the act seemed almost literally unthinkable. The assassin had apparently been driven by the simplistic idea that if he could kill this one man, he could kill the whole process of peace. The true tragedy would be if he were proved right, and so the nation's grief was charged as well with the fear that something even more profound than one man's life...
...generation, perhaps the single most valued quality an individual can have is summed up by the word dugri. The concept is quintessentially Israeli even though the term itself, somewhat ironically, comes from Arabic. It refers to a manner of behavior that is simple, direct, honest. It conveys the idea of placing substance before style, of stripping away layers of subterfuge, of making no attempt at pretense or deception...
...proved implacable in his determination to suppress the Palestinian intifadeh, the uprising against Israeli rule that exploded across the occupied territories in 1987. When the beatings and deportations he ordered proved ineffectual, Rabin decided that 1.7 million captive people could not be ruled by force, and he made the idea of a negotiated peace the theme of his 1992 campaign against Likud Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. To achieve peace, he told the voters, Israel would have to jettison the siege mentality that had formed such a central part of its identity since the state's inception...
Riley, who has six adult children, said he is excited about the job because he likes the idea of working in the University setting...