Word: present
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That essential feel for the trauma, the tragedy, the aloneness of the Jews in that dark period is simply missing from the Arabs' sense of history and from their grasp of the present...They cannot understand the fierce sensations of vulnerability, the lusty devotion to military strength, the stubborn resistance to international criticism, the waves of guilt that soften the core of the hardness. They cannot comprehend the gnawing fear of powerlessness that grinds beneath the arsenal of tanks and planes, the lurking conviction that it could happen again, and that again the world would look the other...
...nowhere near a solution, more U.S. corporate executives came to view South Africa's social and economic future as uncertain at best. Says Lawrence Fox, vice president of the Washington-based National Association of Manufacturers: "Developments in South Africa offered the U.S. companies no good alternatives to departure under present conditions...
...Syrian government, which has been ordered to vacate its London embassy in fashionable Belgrave Square within seven days, reacted with belligerent indignation. "The present British government, since it took power, has made it a permanent practice to launch hostile campaigns against Arab states and Third World countries," said a Damascus official. The state-run television announced that Syria has closed its airspace, ports and territorial waters to British planes and ships, and that the 19 British diplomats in Damascus had one week to leave...
...first George Washington and that singular French genius Pierre l'Enfant planned a "President's palace" five times larger than the present structure. But many Americans were opposed to such monarchical pretensions, so Washington acquiesced. When workmen came to him in 1792 with L'Enfant's grand design for a capital city in which the President's house was to be at the center, Washington paced the ground and set the stakes marking the north wall of the more modest residence designed by James Hoban, which Theodore Roosevelt would dub the "White House...
...miles up, of ozone-enriched air. Once formed, an ozone molecule is a good absorber of ultraviolet. But when CFCs rise to the ozone layer, sunlight decomposes them, releasing the chlorine they contain. The chlorine is a catalyst, breaking ozone apart without itself being affected. At present, the ozone layer lets enough ultraviolet through to cause sunburn and, in some people, skin cancer. More ultraviolet would increase the effect: the Environmental Protection Agency estimates a 1% drop in global ozone could cause 20,000 additional skin cancers in the U.S. annually...