Word: present
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Having made such suggestions in his last chance to address the nation, Reagan showed us that he still lives in a past, a past in which the realities of war made it necessary for America to present a united and undivided front to the rest of the world. But, in case he hasn't noticed, someone ought to tell the President that the battle has been fought and the war has been...
...defensive player, I'm more take-the-body-and-get-puck-out-to-our-forwards," Melrose said. "And it's like a Christmas present for me. I'm going to remember the game for a while...
...real issue isn't whether it might be more efficient in the short-run to let the market decide the value of the dollar. It is whether we should be satisfied with eliminating the trade deficit by compromising future competitiveness and our present standard of living...
...expectancy of this wondrous, swirling globe. How long it endures and the quality of life it can support do not depend alone on the immutable laws of physics. For man has reached a point in his evolution where he has the power to affect, for better or worse, the present and future state of the planet...
...most of his 2 million years or so of existence, man has thrived in earth's environment -- perhaps too well. By 1800 there were 1 billion human beings bestriding the planet. That number had doubled by 1930 and doubled again by 1975. If current birthrates hold, the world's present population of 5.1 billion will double again in 40 more years. The frightening irony is that this exponential growth in the human population -- the very sign of homo sapiens' success as an organism -- could doom the earth as a human habitat...