Word: self
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...showered praise on the leader of his No. 1 enemy, Israel. Prime Minister-elect Ehud Barak, Assad told an Arabic newspaper, is a "strong and honest man" who had a "real desire for peace." Barak blew a few kisses of his own, crediting Assad with creating a "strong, independent, self-confident" country...
...economic engine still shows no sign of catching. True, official statistics say the economy grew an astonishing 1.9% in the first quarter, a number that has mystified observers who look at other indicators and see no evidence of a boom. But there is no sign of a genuine, self-sustaining recovery, and it is all too easy to see how things could get considerably worse--indeed, how Japan could plunge into a nasty deflationary spiral if consumers keep their hands in their pockets...
John is a short, wiry man of 47, with a red beard and red hair and fierce china-blue eyes. His father took him out of school when he was 14 to apprentice him to a butcher. He is self-educated, and he reads all the time when he's not drinking or down the shaft. His literary range is wider than that of most educated Americans I've met, and he talks beautifully. His father was a Stalinist union organizer, and though John is no longer a communist--few miners are; they're too solitary and anarchic by temperament...
...McCain, the self-described maverick in theRepublican field, was well-received in NewHampshire, a state which is notorious for buckingconventional wisdom at the polls...
Since I moved to New York City, I've found myself cursing in front of people I don't know and then worrying about whether they were offended for the rest of the conversation. Strangely, when people curse in front of me, I find them cool and self-confident. Maybe cursing isn't the issue here...