Word: restlessly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...nightstand was referring to me, that she should count herself lucky to be sleeping in my old bed, and, most importantly, that she was to vacate the premises immediately—if not sooner. Unfortunately, I resisted and have spent the last two weeks as a displaced person, enduring restless nights on the living room couch...
...restaurant becomes the new American theater, and the young, the well-off and the restless may eat out five or six nights a week (see following story), their itinerary not only includes the fashionable eateries of their hometown but follows a trendy trail from coast to coast. "With affluence, your palate becomes very important to you," observes Jonathan Waxman, the chef who brought California cooking to New York in his popular though wildly expensive restaurant, Jams. Chefs sought by such traveling gastronomes are likely to include Alice Waters (Chez Panisse, Berkeley), Paul Prudhomme (K-Paul's Louisiana Kitchen, New Orleans...
...years old and has a personal fortune of more than $150 million has a right to relax. But then, John Johnson is not just anyone. "I run scared," says the wealthiest black businessman in America. "I came from the welfare rolls of Chicago." Still driven by the restless ambition that pulled him out of the ghetto, the chairman of Chicago-based Johnson Publishing, the largest U.S. black-owned company (1984 revenues: $139 million) works twelve-hour days and shows no signs of slacking off. Not content to preside over Ebony and Jet magazines, three radio stations and a thriving cosmetics...
Your choice of Deng Xiaoping is a just one. Deng has transformed China from a restless Communist giant to a peaceful nation committed to stability and cooperation. Mao's two upheavals, the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, caused millions of Chinese misery and death; Deng's changes have brought joy and happiness. Now China, the erstwhile protagonist of socialist revolution, and the U.S., the greatest capitalist country, have become friends. For that, Deng deserves a Nobel Peace Prize. Mahmood Elahi Washington...
...palace, Rafsanjani, 70, strides in with the bounce of a man half his age. He's even accompanied by his film crew. It's all part of a slick campaign aimed at selling one of the Islamic republic's old founding fathers as a hip reformer in tune with restless young Iranians, in hopes of returning the former President to the job he left in 1997. As he settles into a gilt-trimmed chair, he says he may do a campaign commercial with the Iranian director of the recent film The Lizard, a huge hit that poked rare...