Word: personal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...person he doesn't seem like a nut. Rather, he comes across as an intelligent, engaging young man with a refreshing sense of humor about his obsessive commitment to some extremely strange ideas...
...head-splitting spectacle--trial by day, triumph by night--inspired another round of commentary about the compartmentalized President. And so it was easy to miss the secret of his success. Maybe Bill Clinton is, in the end, the only person in this whole divisive drama who has remained intact, with a kind of wicked integrity all his own. One reason he can conduct Middle East peace talks in the morning and legal-strategy sessions at night, spray proposals on everything from digital mug shots to national parks, is that all the wild gestures and every last ploy work...
...capital markets of the U.S. are the largest and most efficient in the world. They are a miraculous engine for creating wealth. They take surplus existing wealth and--directed by no one person or institution but instead by the impersonal action of thousands of independent investors--allocate it to the most productive new-wealth creators...
...fork over 10 grand to an SAT prep course could result in a child with somewhere between a dose and a half and 2 1/2 doses of pushy-parents genes. Apparently the egg seekers aren't troubled by the prospect of having their grandchildren raised by this sort of person...
...that has nothing to do with science or medicine." The sin? Lundberg published a study--begun in 1991, analyzed in '95 and presented to JAMA in late '98--on the attitudes of U.S. college students toward sex. Among the findings: 59% of the student group did not view a person who has had oral sex as having "had sex," which could be seen as supportive of Bill Clinton. The firing is the latest in a string of controversies. In 1997 the AMA agreed to endorse Sunbeam medical equipment in what many saw as a conflict of interest. Last year...