Word: terming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With plans to work during his junior year, he began his campaign for an internship at Advent International in June of 1997. It took three months of networking and a Harvard connection to secure a position by the beginning of fall term, he said...
...office had originally planned to confine the seamier material to a secret sex appendix, a Starr ally told TIME. But because the President lied so long and hard, the report maintains, Starr had no choice but to include the particulars that proved that, despite Clinton's parsing of the term and even by the tortuous definition used in the Paula Jones deposition, Clinton and Lewinsky had sex, and Clinton lied to cover...
Congressmen and commentators spoke of being in "uncharted territory." They used the term in the way that medieval cartographers wrote "Here Be Monsters" on old maps--meaning that we are in the place where knowledge ends and dread begins...
What do we see today? These countries and their peoples are suffering. It takes a distorted mind to say the situation is better than the prosperity of the past. Yet we are being told that the destruction of our economies will be good for us in the long term. How do we tell the unemployed millions, the bankrupt banks and busted companies that their misfortunes are good for them and their nations? How do we tell a man being devoured by a tiger that he is really helping preserve a treasured species...
...acknowledges the abstract state at which the action film has arrived. The title is the Japanese word for samurai who have lost their master and must hire themselves out as amoral and dispassionate mercenaries. The script, by J.D. Zeik and Richard Weisz (a pseudonym for David Mamet), applies the term to former CIA and KGB agents who are now obliged to work for terrorists and other international thugs, with no ideology to justify their exertions. It sets a bunch of them--including Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Stellan Skarsgard and Natascha McElhone, all enigmatic and excellent--in expensive, nonstop pursuit...