Word: sea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...order to find that meaningless someone to hook-up with, it was time to decide what, if any, passes we would buy. There was the $30 per person "Booze Cruise," which promised to get you as drunk as possible without inducing a coma and then dump you into the sea for some snorkeling. A friend who miraculously did not drown on this cruise later told me that there were no coral reefs where they had been taken to snorkel. I guess the event planners were hoping that people on the cruise would be too drunk to realize this. There were...
WASHINGTON: Ken Starr is saying good-bye to his deanship-by-the-sea. But despite talk of "moral commitments" in today's surprise announcement, the move isn't simply because Starr is worried about keeping Pepperdine's law school waiting while he hunts assorted Arkansas game. It's what TIME Justice Department correspondent Elaine Shannon calls the "look bad" rule...
Biggest blunders: Iran-contra; national debt; "We begin bombing in five minutes..." Historians' comments: "Brought about sea change"; "Maybe ended the cold war"; "Jury still...
...initiated the Allies' only major effort to outflank the Germans on the Western Front by sending the navy, and later a large force of the army, to the Mediterranean. At Gallipoli in 1915, this Anglo-French force struggled to break the defenses that blocked access to the Black Sea. It was a heroic failure that forced Churchill's resignation and led to his political eclipse...
...World Wildlife Fund. On the road more than half of each month, Mitraud, who is single, shuttles between crusades to repair Brazil's rain forests, its fragile Atlantic archipelagoes or the rapidly disappearing central savannas. A coffee-guzzling eco-evangelist with a pendant shaped like an endangered sea turtle dangling from her neck, Mitraud converts farmers, miners and housewives to viable but more ecologically sustainable livelihoods, such as ecotourism. She has the abrupt professionalism of a Harvard M.B.A. and the urgency of a woman who is sprinting madly against a clock. It is an often joyless existence, as she fights...