Word: playground
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Dick Cheney (in the video for Without Me) and country singer Toby Keith, in his controversial song Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue, promising the nation's enemies, "We'll put a boot in your ass/It's the American way." The culture wars returned, with books from political playground scrappers like Michael Moore and Sean Hannity. Online, the explosion of self-published weblogs revealed a community as divided and outspoken as in the angry-white-male '90s. Architects last summer released their first proposals for rebuilding the World Trade Center site--and the designs were quickly smacked down...
...cohorts know that only through their control over the military can they retain control over a people who despise them. But in comparison to the Arsenal of Democracy that will set up shop next door in Iraq during and after a war, their trump card looks like playground equipment and they will have no choice but to adopt a more pro-American outlook. Similarly, war against North Korea is highly undesirable; the 11 million residents of Seoul sleep within the range of North Korean artillery. Allowing that state to retain and increase its nuclear capability, however, is just as unthinkable...
...move has advantages. It would allow him to stay in the spotlight and, if he helps turn the company around, be a hero again. Yet Giuliani may learn that messing with the debt of bankrupt companies is not necessarily a career-enhancing move. The distressed-debt market is a playground for vulture investors, a place to parlay others' misfortunes into personal wealth. How would that resonate with voters? --By Daniel Kadlec
...area in which they disagreed: how to raise kids. Carla (who, like the other women interviewed for this article, didn't want her real name or that of her friend used) watched with alarm as Nancy allowed her daughter to eat fistfuls of sugary snacks and scramble on playground equipment beyond her abilities. To make matters worse, Carla's daughter was beginning to mimic those behaviors. "I didn't know whether to offer my advice or keep my mouth shut," says Carla. She tried to be host of most of the playdates so that she could enforce her rules...
...BOTTOM LINES "It's like swapping Pokémon cards on the playground and earning a bonus when you have printed your own." Rupert Walker, former fund manager at Govett Investments, on the "split-capital investment trusts" now being investigated by Britain's Financial Services Authority "We think he is Lord of our transportation choices as well as all our other choices." Jim Ball, director of the Evangelical Environmental Network, on their WWJD ("What Would Jesus Drive?") campaign against sport-utility vehicles