Word: thirst
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...chastened by Fortuyn's signal success and vow to draw lessons. Says Dick Benschop, State Secretary for Foreign Affairs from Kok's Labor Party: "We'll see less focus on technocratic control and more on political debate." But they lack the personalities to slake the newly awakened Dutch thirst for flamboyance, verve and straight talking that is Pim Fortuyn's best legacy. Pragmatism demands patience, and Dutch voters seem to be running short on that...
...midterm season and sweet dreams are perverted by an unquenchable thirst for A’s that invades even the supposedly safe confines of sleep. “Academic anxiety dreams are probably so common as to be Harvard students’ stock-in-trade,” says clinical psychologist and Bureau of Study Counsel Director Charles P. Ducey...
...novel about love and society that also, along with Proust's masterpiece, is one of the world's great representations of the passage of human time. It immerses us deeply in a strange and distant culture, whose graceful decadence initially seems light-years away from the haste and thirst for progress of modern Japan. But 21st century Japan shares the same sense of fecund decay as Genji's Heian period?in both eras, society has become complex, gaudy but, finally, ennui-inducing. Now, as then, it is more rewarding to scrutinize the smallest signs of every human interaction rather than...
...growth for 2002, with plenty of cautious caveats - and raised him a whole bunch of exuberance. Forget the glass-half-full predictions of a "U"-shaped recession (gentle recession, gentle recovery); laugh at those who worried about an "L" (steep recession, very gentle recovery) and twelve more months of thirst. Investors are now back to betting big on the "V" - the snap-back boom...
Tonya Harding and her unfortunate crowbar antics were missed in Salt Lake City this year. But for figure skating fans with a leftover thirst for scandal, the Olympics did not disappoint. Matthew L. Butler ’04 was glued to the TV coverage of the controversial gold medal awards in the pairs figure skating competition for the same reasons most fans were: the beauty of the sport, the excitement of high level athletic achievement and, of course, crazy French judges. But Butler also had a bit more at stake in the success of the Russian skaters Yelena Berezhnaya...