Word: perring
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...most intense gossip centered not on the future of Barack Obama’s administration, but on his family—what school would his two daughters, Sasha and Malia, attend? This time, the prompt answer was a disappointment: The Obama daughters will attend the $29,442-per-year Sidwell Friends School, alma mater of presidential progeny from Archie Roosevelt to Chelsea Clinton...
...well as for voters nostalgic for the glory days of Apollo. But Bush, NASA and Congress did mean business, and eventually came up with a plan under which the space station would be completed and the shuttle would be retired by 2010. That would free up about $4 billion per year, which would be used to pay for a new generation of expendable boosters as well as a 21st century version of the Apollo orbiter and lunar lander for those rockets to carry. (Read about the space moon race here...
...money selling luxury home furnishings, and his wife have come to the annual Moscow Millionaire Fair looking for a carpet for the front hall of their newly remodeled apartment in the center of the city. But they're having trouble deciding on colors and how many knots they want per square inch. Then there's the matter of whether they can actually afford to spend $155,000 on a carpet at the moment. "No one knows what will happen next with the financial crisis," Kazakov says. "Everyone is waiting to see." His wife adds, as she continues to walk down...
...less to do than he did a few months back. New Buicks used to leave his shop by the dozens each week, but these days, not even discounts of 15-18% can draw in the same number of paying of customers. "We used to sell 120 to 150 cars per month at this store," Wang says. "But starting from November, the number has shrunk to 90." The reason, he says, is simple: "The economic crisis...
...million people in his country. There is a zero-percent chance of a pragmatic response from him." Even the fact that scores of Zimbabweans are dying every day from a disease contracted by ingesting fecal matter in water - which can be cured at a cost of a few cents per dose of medication - won't produce a tipping point. "This is actually a slow process of degradation," says Vines. "And it can drag on for a very long time. Cholera just draws attention to it again. The story has not changed." Until it does, Zimbabwe's future will come down...