Word: teacup
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...teacup runneth over, with purveyors only planning to offer more. Lipton is test-marketing fancy-tea kiosks to be rolled out in places like hotels, airports and corporate dining rooms. Saks Fifth Avenue has discontinued its coffee line but plans an expansion next year of its private-label loose-leaf teas. And then there's Madden, who carries around her own tea, which recently fell out of her portfolio during a business dinner in Las Vegas. "Can I try some?" her companion asked. By the end of the meal, the designer had both a new client and a new convert...
...more because he seemed to appreciate the gentleness that his construction required. He picked opposing players off the floor when they tripped and fell. That weird shot of his--the monstrous and graceful Dipper Dunk--had the look of a man pouring lava from a vat into a teacup...
...cause c?l?bre of this outcry involves one Ronnie Hawkins, a defendant in Long Beach, Calif., who was deemed disruptive in court by a judge last June. The judge ordered Hawkins zapped by the bailiff, and the tempest was on. But is it teacup-size? Supporters of the belts say they're the best and safest way to restrain a crazed defendant, and that they're used only for that purpose, never for punishment (that would be torture). But the watchdogs worry that when the belts are used not only in the courts but in jails by prison guards, the possibilities...
...read with great interest and sadness Charles Krauthammer's commentary "The Clinton Doctrine" [ESSAY, April 5], in which he quoted a foreign policy expert's description of managing the "teacup wars" of the world and the "uncivil civil wars" of nation-states. The interest came from its facts and logic, the sadness from the doctrine's "highfalutin moral principles [that] are impossible guides to foreign policy" and the inevitable wavering between the deplorable poles of hypocrisy and naivete. After reflection, however, I find that both President Clinton and Krauthammer are correct. The Kosovo affair seems like the pursuit of knowledge...
...approach to the world perhaps best enunciated by Leslie Gelb, president of the Council on Foreign Relations. In 1994, Gelb wrote that America's "main strategic challenge" in the world was no longer dealing with Russia or China or Germany or trade or loose nukes. It was managing the "teacup wars" of the world, "wars of national debilitation, a steady run of uncivil civil wars sundering fragile but functioning nation-states...