Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...going to talk about the weather, and not because I have nothing else to say. The topic is generally considered ultimately dull, a last resort to be trotted out sometime after "How 'bout them Red Sox?" One imagines old men sitting on dusty porches in Texas, commenting for the 63rd consecutive day that they seem to be in the midst of a dry spell. Once, on a tour bus in France, I sat next to a very old Japanese man whose English was entirely limited to the discussion of pleasant weather. Periodically he pointed to the sky and said, earnestly...
...John D. Strong, 63, of Decatur, Ill., who has 14 weeks at four properties in Hilton Head, S.C., where beachfront property was too expensive for him to buy outright. Strong and his peers are also getting variety through bartering. For a fee of about $120 a year, companies like Resort Condominiums International and Interval International will broker an exchange, letting time-share owners in, say, Florida, the most popular destination, journey off to Colorado or Europe...
...distribution in the country has been cruelly manipulated by the government to control hungry groups. Meanwhile, Saddam, who intelligence agencies believe is a billionaire, has built 48 palaces for himself since the Gulf War ended. Last April, according to a State Department report, he opened a vacation resort west of Baghdad for his cronies. It is complete with 625 homes, a man-made lake, stadium, amusement park and Ferris wheel...
Last week, an animal rights organization calling itself Justice Department sent six Harvard Medical School researchers razor blades and threatening letters in the mail. This startling disturbance to Harvard's well-respected research community reminds us how frightening it can be when activists resort to violence...
Altering the public mindset about an issue as controversial as animal rights is best achieved through education, negotiation and extensive lobbying. To resort to such threatening and petty acts as sending razor blades via the mail is to undermine a group's credibility as a purveyor of information and as a vehicle for change...