Word: joys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jessica Dubroff's wings may have been frosted with ice, and she had no joy of flight on her last ride. She took off in a cold rain and died when her single-engine Cessna 177B nose-dived onto the black tar of a suburban roadway. But her senseless death last week could also be attributed to a modern kind of hubris. For Jessica was urged on by overzealous parents, by a media drawn to a natural human-interest story and by a willfully blind Federal Aviation Administration, which permitted a 4-ft. 2-in., 55-lb. seven-year...
...hype of the whole enterprise, in retrospect, seems reckless. Let us tick off the deceptions that everyone involved pretended were true: the trip was Jessica's idea; she was doing it for the joy of flying; she was truly piloting the plane; it was safe; she wasn't scared. For the most part, the public played along with this game, for it is easier not to question the received platitudes. Yet, looking at her taped interviews after the fact, it is clear that the dutiful little girl who didn't want to disappoint her father, who insisted...
...primed her to write a letter to President Clinton, inviting him along for a ride. "To visit you at the White House would be wonderful," she wrote in her simple, child's hand, "and clearly to pilot an airplane that you would be in would bring me even greater joy." (The White House did not accept...
...moment we received the name of our home for the next three years on a slip of paper at 8 a.m., we all screamed. It was not a scream of joy. We were in Grays; you could have heard us in the Science Center. That day, I walked around campus avoiding the glances of friends, not wanting to hear the inevitable "Eliot" and "Lowell" and the accompanying smiles. But I couldn't evade them all, and so I unswervingly received so-called "humorous" responses of "Oh, I'm sorry" and "See you in three years" from supposedly well-meaning peers...
When the Iron Curtain fell in 1989, both the United States and Western Europe celebrated the beginning of a new era. Seven years later, economic realities have transformed much of the initial joy into uneasiness; there have been similar developments in Asia. Despite the increased opportunities these new emerging markets and peoples offer, they have also increased competition dramatically. International trade, previously heavily regulated and dominated by informal agreements and long-term relationships, has opened to fierce worldwide competition. The low wages and social security costs combined with a hard-working workforce in the emerging markets have initiated a somewhat...