Word: todays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...today Paris remains suspended in limbo between its two identities, on the one hand the world center of fashion and finery, of grace and grandeur and, on the other, a beacon of hope for socialist ideals...
Bush, for his part, bemoans the culture of partisanship and gridlock in Washington but is mostly silent about the system that funds it. He proposes lifting the $1,000 limit on individual contributions and requiring full disclosure of contributors. But, says McCain, "that's basically the system we have today. The restrictions we have now are a facade." The Senator's current plan, in his McCain-Feingold bill, would ban the unlimited contributions known as "soft money" that corporations, lobbyists and unions can give to national parties, and it would restrict outside, allegedly "independent" groups from running ads to help...
...developed by Scientific Learning Corp. of Berkeley, Calif., to aid children like her who cannot process the sounds of language fast enough to comprehend normal speech. Nicole spent six weeks of intense game playing at a speech clinic in New Jersey, emerging "like a different child," Donna Davis says. Today the ebullient second-grader chatters away with classmates, gets good grades and has stellar reading skills. As Nicole puts it, "I like to write stories and poems, read books and play with my friends...
...happy to be kids, and they don't view the world as the nasty place their parents perceive it to be. Nine out of 10 say they feel safe in their schools and neighborhoods. While parents list crime, violence and guns as the worst aspects of being a child today, such concerns are way down the list for kids. Their gripes are the timeless laments of childhood: "getting bossed around," homework, chores...
Investors wagering on developing markets in Thailand, Brazil, China, Russia and other far-flung lands have been underwater a long time. A $1,000 investment in an average emerging-markets stock fund in June 1994 would be worth about $900 today. Maybe they should be called submerging markets. This year, though, the world's economic trouble spots have come up for air--and suddenly we have the re-emerging markets...