Word: lurking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suffer fools gladly," a regular old crosspatch. They all recounted the rounded, well-traveled life she had led. (Before writing the first Mary Poppins book, she had been variously a dancer, a poet, a journalist, a theater critic and a Shakespearean actress.) Still, the implication that seemed to lurk behind the articles about Travers was that she hadn't really liked life or the world very much. In fact, interviews with Travers suggest little more than that she couldn't abide journalists and had little patience with people who yearned to elicit trivial, simplistic or self-evident answers from...
...experience shows that while students can attempt to reduce safety risks, the University must also make this campus safer. Harvard's streets and pathways need to be lit brightly at night. Currently, the campus is riddled with poorly lit areas, and criminals can exploit this situation and lurk undetected in the shadows. Installing more street-lights is not a costly improvement--there is no excuse for the University not to improve campus lighting immediately. This situation is even more disturbing given the fact that temporary lighting is installed in the Yard during Commencement week to keep chairs in Tercentenary Theatre...
...tourist guides make little mention of it, but no island is free from the new influence of the drug cartels. They stash cocaine on the U.S. Virgin Islands, and their boats lurk in the waters off St. Eustatius and Cuba. St. Lucia has a growing population of cocaine addicts and the second highest murder rate in the world. Drug gangs terrorize Trinidad. St. Martin is the new meeting place for the Colombian and Italian drug Mafias--a real Star Wars bar of drug riffraff, claim DEA agents. Antigua has become the newest offshore banking center for shady American and Russian...
...growth for a time; to boost employment, you risk some inflation. As with most trade-offs, Forbes says this one doesn't exist. Instead, he is pro-panacea. Growth, tax cuts, gold and free trade are his painless cures of choice. He scorns "austerity" in all its guises. "Obstacles lurk everywhere to achieving our full potential," Forbes says, be they progressive taxation, outdated telecommunications laws or "idiotic" economic policies in Germany. The victims waiting to be "unshackled" are likewise ubiquitous: inner-city entrepreneurs, long-suffering citizens of former communist countries, rich investors who would unleash money for fresh investment...
...also the world he deals with so poorly. Young and charming, giving no indication of his inner turmoil, De Niro's Travis enters the senator's campaign office to proclaim with boyish impetuousness that Betsy is the most beautiful person has ever seen. Yet even here warning signs lurk, as in the way he carefully details exactly what he and Betsy have on their little coffee shop date. Travis's bizarre hypocrisy emerges when he takes Betsy to the only place of entertainment he knows in his night world: a porn shop. When Betsy leaves, Travis is puzzled, evoking...