Word: moment
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That's exactly how I would put it. This is moment when the face of environmentalism is changing. We want people to see the EPA and me and our staff and understand that they don't have to be on a mountaintop with a pristine view to be an environmentalist. You can live in a city. The air you must breathe and the water you must drink should be clean. You have the right to not live next to a polluted brownfield. I am hopeful that these changes are going to happen because young people today are growing...
...response to "The Moment" on the killings in Binghamton, N.Y. [April 20]: I had always thought that the reason for the National Rifle Association's existence was to foster the right to bear arms. Now, after the latest massacres by killers with guns, I finally know the NRA's real agenda: population control. Richard Cionci, CHERRY HILL...
...were young in the mid-'80s, you'll remember the trauma of that moment - if Coke could change, what couldn't? And if you were Benji's age, you'll remember the party at the roller rink, the Apple II+, the Tears for Fears video and the way everybody said "dag," a word expressive of such complex emotion that you couldn't possibly articulate its meaning. But Whitehead can. "Dag was bitter acknowledgment of the brutish machinery of the world," Benji explains, and he makes it sound so right and true that you wish people would start...
...years has been a cycle of hope and frustration. First there's the trip to London to see each new Ayckbourn play, gems like Joking Apart (1978), in which a "golden couple" inadvertently destroy the lives of all who come in contact with them, and Man of the Moment (1988), his acidic satire of a former criminal turned media star - so prescient about the distorting mirror of reality TV - and Wildest Dreams (1991), his chilling black comedy about addicts of a Dungeons & Dragons - style fantasy game who lose touch with real life. Then the wait, often in vain...
...anniversary celebrations come at a pivotal moment for the United States and China. On April 6 Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced his intention - and a budget to back it up - to build future defense spending around the "wars we are in," rather than those that military planners can imagine. The decision is hugely consequential. Even as the U.S. was engaged in two fronts in the so called War on Terror over the last eight years, it simultaneously spent defense dollars on weapons systems grounded in the assumption that someday the U.S. might well find itself in conflict with...