Word: pivots
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...take my tray up to the dishwashers, pivot and catch up to a friend in front...
...state a cause; Nuland points out that for most of the elderly the villain is old age. Bodies wear out like old machines, as Thomas Jefferson, then 78, sagely wrote to the 81-year-old John Adams in 1814: "We must expect that, worn as they are, here a pivot, there a wheel, now a pinion, next a spring, will be giving way: and however we may tinker them up for a while, all will at length surcease...
What began with small-scale skirmishes, like a dispute over access to Jerusalem's Wailing Wall, escalated over time into a millennial blood feud involving the entire Middle East and turning the region into a pivot of superpower conflict. In light of that record, one of Rabin's statements last week was extraordinary. Explaining the peace formula to his government partners, Israel's Prime Minister declared, "The past no longer matters." To a nation founded on the premise that the past must be remembered so as not to be repeated, the remark verged on blasphemy. But Rabin did not forget...
...pivot of the trial was whether Altman -- and by extension Clifford -- knowingly helped B.C.C.I. secretly buy an American bank and then lied to regulators about it. The issue was neither their long and intimate involvement with B.C.C.I. nor their huge profits from that relationship. The two men acknowledged making millions of dollars in fees from their roles as legal counsel to B.C.C.I. in the U.S. and reaping additional millions from stock deals as payment for their work running First American Bank, the largest bank in Washington, which B.C.C.I. illegally owned through front investors. Nor did the case address the larger...
ROTC's popularity was at its height, for it represented the ultimate desire to serve one's country. Sawhill says this desire reflected the overriding philanthropic philosophy of the time. "The whole program worked in those days...[Now] it's much more self than nation." The "pivot point," he says, was Vietnam...