Word: ironization
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...practice, that love finds expression in huge sums of public money flung at the islanders. Traditional houses of wood and corrugated iron are steadily being replaced by the ugly concrete housing projects that ring all French towns. The revenu minimum d'insertion (rmi) - a low-level unemployment benefit created in 1988 - provides a financial lifeline to one-fifth of the island's population...
...next morning, a white van loaded with special police units in stocking masks and jeans roared up to the leafy compound where the ex-strongman had been holed up since last fall. Hurling stun grenades, they burst past a knot of angry loyalists singing patriotic songs and vaulted the iron gates. (The Serbian army, which once strongly backed Milosevic, remained in its barracks...
While all this might be good news to what environmentalists see as the iron triangle of the coal, oil and nuclear industry, it falls far short of the comprehensive vision for emission controls that Kyoto once seemed to offer. "I'm very pessimistic that our government can do anything about [greenhouse gases]," says William Merrell, president of the Heinz Center, which provides funding to environment projects...
...same time, the baby-boom generation, which accounted for much of the spending binge of the '80s, is reaching middle age. Here come 75 million aching backs. A generation of reluctant grown-ups is raising children, caring for aging parents and beginning to think about retirement. Instead of pumping iron, preening and networking, they are worrying about orthodontists, skateboards and college tuitions. The backyard now has more appeal than the boardroom...
...summer ended, we embarked for our new homes. As the general chaos of the first week subsided, I found myself comfortably ensconced within the iron gates of Harvard Yard. Suddenly, everyone I knew—everyone who counted, at least—seemed to live within Harvard’s walls, and my contact with the outside world, including Mike, dwindled to an increasingly intermittent trickle of e-mails...