Word: outwards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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City councillors said to lose 929 House and its 57 units of affordable housing would be a devastating blow for Cambridge and would quicken the outward exodus from the city...
...Microsoft, he hit the big time at 25 when IBM made an epic blunder in letting him retain the rights to the operating system Microsoft developed for IBM's PCs. Gates, who spent most of his waking hours among computers, turned as inward as the glad-handing Clinton turned outward. New acquaintances traded tales of his bad haircuts, dirty glasses and odd rocking motion. His early reluctance to give to charity--which he's recently begun to abandon--added to a perception that he lacked the Clintonian ability to feel others' pain...
...outward appearances, Ashanthi ("Ashi") DeSilva is a normal, healthy 12-year-old who loves sports and would rather play basketball than do her seventh-grade homework. But Ashi holds a unique place in medical history: she is the first recipient of successful gene therapy...
...when the sun comes up again, you wonder if the night was all a bad dream. Iraqis go about their business of struggling to survive. The cityscape looks the same, shabby but nothing worse. People talk about how little they slept, but they show no other outward signs of stress. This is a curiously surreal war that starts on schedule after dark and stops before dawn, its most intense drama and damage so far taking place mostly out of sight...
...full." Images of men and masculinity pervade the novel. Physical strength and presence are a big part of Charlie's aura--he is proud of his huge frame just as Conrad (the Californian worker) is obsessed with his massive hands and arms. Croker is determined to avoid outward signs of weakness, and his pride drives him to ridiculous displays of machismo...