Word: outlook
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lang says she feels McLain's election as chairreflects a more reform-minded outlook of thecurrent Student Advisory Council. "I think thathis election was partly a result of people'sfeelings on the changes being discussed...
...Kyoto represented the classic division of old Japanese power: court, samurai, priests. It continued to exert a great influence on the country's art. But in Edo, a more secular and even demotic imagination began to assert itself--marked, writes Singer, by "bold, sometimes brash expression...and a playful outlook on life in general." This happened because Japanese society, in the new capital, became somewhat more open to change. Not very much, but a little, and then a little more. The once despised merchants and entrepreneurs, and other commoners too, were developing their own tastes. They became an important cultural...
Today will mark the second missed payday for the players, and a new month will begin tomorrow with the outlook bleak. Millions of dollars have been lost, the fans are upset and the long-term damage could be worse than expected...
...couldn't meet its global warming commitments even if it wanted to. The government's Energy Information Agency this week released its 1999 Annual Energy Outlook, which suggests that complying with the Kyoto Protocol -- recently signed by the U.S. -- will be almost impossible. The agency projects that by 2010, U.S. carbon gas emissions will have increased 33 percent from 1990 levels; Kyoto requires that they be 5.2 percent below 1990 levels by then. But fulfilling the Kyoto requirements may not even be the administration's intention. "They signed the Kyoto treaty as a freebie," says TIME science editor Phillip Elmer...
...squad, defending national co-champions, loses three marquee players to graduation but remains unabashedly optimistic about this year's outlook...