Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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High school seniors breathe a sigh of relief at the end of the school year, not just because they're heading off to college, but because they're finally done with the SATs. The dreaded Saturday mornings spent frantically filling in bubbles are finally over. The only tests they'll have to worry about for the next four years will be, for the most part, done in blue books. But future generations of students may be even more inundated by standardized tests. The Republican presidential frontrunner, Texas Gov. George W. Bush, has made accountability and assessment the centerpiece...
...follow her quickly back to the entrance, and just as the salespeople's sigh of relief becomes almost audible, she turns around abruptly to face the rest of the store and explains: "Whenever you enter a store, you instinctively go to the right. I don't know why, I didn't realize it myself until I read it somewhere. But for some reason people always go right...
...walk once around the Quad naked. And that's it. To put such pressure is in my way of thinking not a release of tension, but it's more tension to the lives of students, which is difficult enough at a school like Harvard. So if they need some relief, let them get some comic relief by doing something funny. But not put such competitive pressure on having to do something silly to top the next one. [Giggles...
...deeply disappointed"; the Japanese Foreign Minister "extremely concerned." To be sure, there was some justification for the anxiety. It's difficult to dissuade India and Pakistan from testing nukes in each other's backyards if the U.S. won't promise to end testing. "There is a collective sigh of relief in Indian government circles," says Bharat Karnad of the Center for Policy Research in New Delhi. "Jesse Helms [who, as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, led the opposition] has taken India off the hook...
Even in Western capitals, the usual jitters were tempered by widespread relief that Sharif was gone. Although U.S. Ambassador William Milam met with Musharraf to inform him of Washington's "profound regret about the military takeover," the U.S. was not all that upset by last week's events. The Asian subcontinent has been a source of heightened anxiety for the U.S. since the spring of 1998, when India tested nuclear devices and Pakistan responded with its own nuclear tests. The two countries' dispute over the territory of Kashmir brought them to the brink of all-out war this year...