Word: penchant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...father's wartime comrades, a new generation of revolutionaries who call themselves the Loyal Warriors and whose cars carry license plates emblazoned with the Dear Leader's birth date. Mercurial and erratic, Kim Jong Il rarely meets foreign dignitaries. Defectors have told tales about his huge film collection, his penchant for Portuguese oranges and -- though he is reportedly married with two children -- a weakness for Swedish women. More ominous is his supposed ruthless management of Pyongyang's nuclear-weapons program and terrorist activities, including the 1983 attack in Burma that killed a large part of the visiting South Korean Cabinet...
...that wondrous entity, the human personality, is being decoded. An even temper or a short fuse, an affectionate nature or a penchant for anonymous sex, a love of thrills or a tendency to withdraw: such elements of our cherished sense of self are being revealed as less the shadings of the soul than the manifestations of neurobiology...
...everyone as he sees Americans: as bourgeois consumers whose behavior is driven by economic concerns. The idea that bad guys are interested only in raw power, and dissuaded only by countervailing power, seems lost on him. At this rate, Clinton may soon echo the words of a President whose penchant for muddleheaded multinationalism he much admires. "A nation that is boycotted is a nation in sight of surrender," said Woodrow Wilson in 1919. "Apply this peaceful, silent, deadly remedy, and there will be no need for force...
Thompson, 41, showed a penchant for investigative reporting from the start of his journalistic career. At the Pendulum, his hometown paper in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, he alternated coverage of bake sales with exposes of the local police department that led to an FBI probe and the firing of the town's police chief. After more local reporting, in Pontiac, Michigan, he shifted to the nation's capital 15 years ago, and quickly mastered the balancing act required of any Washington correspondent. As TIME's Washington bureau chief Dan Goodgame puts it, "He manages to ask tough questions and write...
Given Rudenstine's penchant for long searches--18 months for the new vice president for government, community and public affairs, for instance--it is unclear when the leader will arrive to give new direction to the Kennedy School...