Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...leading the war but shying away from winning it. "If NATO wants a military victory in Yugoslavia, the only way to get it is to risk pilots now," says Maurizio Cremasco, a former general in the Italian air force. "They don't do this for the same reason the Apache helicopters haven't been utilized--because low-altitude flying still involves the risk that pilots and crews will get shot down and killed...
...Another reason officers give for grounding the Apaches is what might happen to the 400,000 Kosovars crowded into Albania if the choppers fly. "If we launch attacks from Albania, the Serbs aren't going to see it as a neutral country," a Joint Staff planner says. "And a lot of those refugees are in crowded camps within range of Serbian artillery." Already smarting over charges that the allied bombing accelerated Milosevic's ethnic cleansing, the Pentagon doesn't want to be blamed for triggering more civilian carnage...
...wrestle with a complex topic like school violence by setting it up as a political debate, such as Is it the proliferation of guns or the increase in violence in the media that's more to blame? Most parents realize it's both--there's no reason that kids should have easy access to arsenals of weapons or that their movies and games should revolve around gruesome fantasy killings--and a lot more as well...
...jokes about his "Austin Powers teeth," he gives the term self-deprecating a whole new meaning. People forget, for instance, that before Four Weddings, he appeared in a string of what he calls "Europuddings"--but Grant is delighted to remind us. "I was always a champagne baron for some reason," he says. "I did Judith Krantz's Till We Meet Again. I was the villainous half-brother Bruno, who rapes Courteney Cox and steals all the family champagne and gives it to the Nazis--fantastic. And there's a very good one based on the Barbara Cartland novel Cupid Rides...
...give you a reason. Because it's hard--really hard--to get the direction right, even with all that great info and terrific execution. We have enjoyed the bull market of a lifetime, one that has seen the Dow go up more than 8,000 points, and yet every day thousands of issues go down or disappear or blow up. And while you hear periodically of the day trader who earns enough to retire, you don't hear about them any more than you do about lottery winners...