Word: lows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After our eyes were adjusted to the low light, we went up to the black rectangle and looked at it, and we still weren't impressed. Then I went to touch it, and it wasn't there. As far as I reached in any direction from the edge of the rectangle, there was nothing, and there was nothing to see. It really looked like a "limitless space." I was very impressed, and now it is my favorite piece, because it tricked me into thinking that it was stupid...
...Tanzania indicates what may be a new trend: "With airline security having been beefed up and U.S. embassies in the Middle East now heavily fortified, we may see an increase in car-bomb attacks at more vulnerable facilities," says TIME correspondent Douglas Waller. "Africa has traditionally been a low-risk area and our embassies there aren't heavily protected. But these attacks show that terrorists prefer the path of least resistance...
...between the Prez and his Democratic colleagues. After all, some believe, here is the man who lost them Congress in 1994 -- and by concentrating too much on his own re-election, failed to help win it back in 1996. "There is a residual angst," reports Dickerson, "a sort of low-grade feeling of being annoyed. But Clinton is still somebody the Democrats want campaigning for them." They'll be pleased, then, that the President promised to "raise issues, raise money and raise Cain" on behalf of the party this November. There's just one question: When Ken Starr's report...
...afford not to invest in the powerful trend toward people's shopping, at incredibly low prices, from the convenience of their homes? That was the pitch I used back when I was a broker at Goldman Sachs, and since that was in 1986-87, I wasn't hawking the Internet but rather an outfit called Home Shopping Network, which peddled stuff on TV and took orders by phone. Its stock had gone from 18 to 133 in the time it takes to say "cubic zirconium," and I thought it could only go higher. Instead, it suffered the most brutal, protracted...
...absurd to think that the key to ending welfare is teaching folks how to dress and explaining the concept of "boss" [NATION, July 13]. The problems of poverty and unemployment in low-income neighborhoods are deeply entrenched. Quick-fix policies blind us to real solutions, such as fully funding our schools and providing jobs that pay a wage that can support a family. HUNTER CUTTING San Francisco...