Word: restlessly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...that night Betsy was still restless. It was nearly midnight, and she found herself wandering through the living room when her eyes fell on their wedding albums. "I hadn't taken them out in ages." She started paging through the pictures of their ceremony on Swan Mountain in Colorado, where they loved to ski and where she had married her soul mate. It was not until the next evening that she learned what Chris was doing at that very moment...
...opposed the war in Chechnya and failed to back Putin in the presidential elections. He was briefly imprisoned (though not convicted of any offenses), lost his empire and now lives overseas. The billionaire Boris Berezovsky, who helped Putin get elected but broke with him soon after, is now in restless exile in London. No one has a clear explanation for this change in Khodorkovsky's behavior, though many believe that the answer lies in a combination of massive wealth and growing ennui. "I think he is just bored," says one Duma member. "And as he is very rich, perhaps...
...water comes in, the water goes out, propelled by the perpetual engine of the sun and moon. With 70% of the earth's surface covered by the restless tides and currents of the oceans, the idea of harnessing that movement to serve the planet's energy needs is too tempting to ignore. Since the Middle Ages people have built tidal mills, trapping an incoming tide in a storage pond to turn a wheel as the water ebbs. But the dream has always been to tap the power of the ocean itself - to harness the force of tides mighty enough...
Miners has also observed the degree to which many men, primarily white collar, are tied to their work. "They say it's my identity, it's my place in the sun, I am my business card--that kind of thing," says Miners. Typically, when such men retire, they get restless after a short period, then try to find the same kind of work in which they once excelled--which isn't always easy...
...taking care of her husband, whom she met in grad school, and their two children. "I was very good too," she says. "I made my own bread, I sewed clothes for my children. I cooked. I washed my own diapers." But something wasn't right. Mertz was bored and restless. "I just couldn't vocalize or define really what the problem was," she says. "There was something missing...