Word: mattered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Some of my friends were disappointed that they were not chosen, but in the end it didn't really matter, because they realized it was an arbitrary decision by the [BASIC committee]," said Ana I. Laguarda '02, a model...
...complete roof systems. As the order books bulged, so did Stronach's paycheck--by 1987 he had become Canada's highest-paid executive. Around that time, Magna's engineers developed the Torrero from the company's components inventory to drive home a point: it's not the parts that matter; it's how they fit together that counts. Dennis Blommers, a plant manager for Magna's Decoma division, which specializes in exterior systems, has been along for much of the company's ride to success; he now oversees 300 employees who engineer and make high-tech plastic bumper covers...
...time to weed their portfolios and especially to reduce their exposure to high-risk regions and sectors. That helped international markets shake off Brazil's latest shudder. The downside is that emerging economies are largely off the horizon of foreign portfolio managers, who feel safer on Wall Street no matter how giddy its prices. As Naim notes, Amazon.com now has a market capitalization that exceeds the entire stock market of Argentina...
...Perpetual Polling, the public never caught the fever of the combatants. Week after week the argument was framed by the extremes: the politicians and the pundits created a cross fire in which every action was cast as either a partisan plot or an assault on justice. Yet no matter how appalling the details, the public generally kept its distance from the shouting and weighed the evidence carefully...
...clear abuses of presidential power, not middle-aged sex play and the attendant embarrassments, and it ended with Richard Nixon in pieces on the ground. By comparison, Bill Clinton is merely scuffed and dented, and his accusers are on the defensive, while most people profess indifference to the whole matter. So everything that happened in the past year points to two conclusions that appear contrary but may not be. One is that in the next election, what used to be called the private life of a candidate will be anything but private. The other is that certain personal shortcomings...