Word: saner
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...also 1992. The main difference between the two situations is that Michael Bloomberg is richer--and saner--than Ross Perot. But one similarity might be this: the American people were wrong then and may be wrong now. The widespread pessimism in the early 1990s about the course of the country turned out to be unwarranted. The rest of the decade featured impressive economic growth, a falling crime rate, successful reform of the welfare system and a reasonably peaceful world. Perhaps the problems weren't so bad in the first place, or perhaps the political system produced politicians, like Bill Clinton...
...SANER ADMISSIONS POLICY...
Sure, I experienced the frustrations of libraries that closed at 4 p.m. on Saturday, and short shopping hours on Sunday, but the beauty of living in Oxford was that life moved at a slower, saner pace than my hyper-scheduled Harvard existence. Rather than going-going-going all the time, I was sometimes forced to pause and consider why I was writing my dissertation, what I really wanted to be learning, and how I wanted to move forward after graduate school...
...personalized. Miller Harris, a small London-based perfumer, offers shoppers a chance to collaborate on their own bespoke fragrance. But if the $10,000 fee is too much, the next best thing, L'Air de Rien?a scent Miller Harris created for Jane Birkin?is available for a far saner price at the company's first U.S. outpost in New York City's Saks Fifth Avenue. And for a truly unique, over-the-top gift, an Australian company, Cantilena Music, harks back to a bygone era with a commission service for custom-created works of classical music...
...most glaring thing I see. I figure that if we go back to the basics of please and thank you and remind people that it's not O.K. to leave your telephone on in the theater, certain aspects of our life might actually be a little bit saner...