Word: presention
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past 75 years, TIME has engaged readers by presenting the news of the week, and by offering a look ahead. This week, though, the magazine has broadened its purview to present the story of the century. It's an amazing tale, and like the very best literature, it grabs readers not only with its twists of plot and its resonant themes but also with a collection of characters that dance in our minds, the great men and women who with their lives wrote the history of our times...
Roberts v. Texaco by Bari-Ellen Roberts and Jack E. White and your excerpt of it [BUSINESS, March 16] contain numerous factual inaccuracies that present a distorted picture of the events surrounding the racial-discrimination class action of former Texaco senior financial analyst Roberts and other black employees. We feel it is not productive to launch a debate over the facts surrounding these incidents from the past. However, there ought to be a discussion of the questionable conduct of the plaintiffs' attorneys, who knew there was significant doubt as to whether there were racial epithets on the tapes...
That book--the report Starr will eventually present to Congress--will contain a chapter on the further adventures of Hubbell, the former Associate Attorney General who has already spent 18 months in prison. Starr has tried to establish that when Clinton loyalists lined up some $700,000 in contracts for Hubbell in 1994, just after he resigned from the Justice Department and before he was indicted, the payments amounted to hush money. That investigation has also led nowhere, but Starr appears ready to go after Hubbell again, this time on tax charges relating to some...
Take a look at our present world. It is manifestly not Adolf Hitler's world. His Thousand-Year Reich turned out to have a brief and bloody run of a dozen years. It is manifestly not Joseph Stalin's world. That ghastly world self-destructed before our eyes. Nor is it Winston Churchill's world. Empire and its glories have long since vanished into history...
...where he took part in what is often described as the British Army's last cavalry charge, at Omdurman. Even at 24, Churchill was steely: "I never felt the slightest nervousness," he wrote to his mother. "[I] felt as cool as I do now." In Cuba he was present as a war correspondent, and in India and the Sudan he was present both as a war correspondent and as a serving officer. Thus he revealed two other aspects of his character: a literary bent and an interest in public affairs...