Word: took
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...either candidacy or policies ?- rather like George W. Bush in the early part of 1999. Crowd-Pleasers try to mimic Ronald Reagan?s knack for making people feel good about him without ever really being able to articulate why (although unlike today?s wussy centrists, of course, Reagan actually took firm and controversial policy stands). Of course, media plays a critical role in generating those feelings. But it wouldn?t be possible without some basic charisma. They?re not sure why they do, but voters instinctively trust a Crowd-Pleaser. More important, in the absence of clear political positions, they...
...quiet, structured family life to a wonderfully unstructured and often loud college life, my first weeks at Harvard were a time of frenetic activity, rushing from the intro meeting of the South Asian Association (SAA) to the first rehearsal of the Toscanini Chamber Orchestra, shopping about 10 classes (it took me about three tries just to find Harvard Hall, no small building), and trying to meet as many people as possible only to realize I had forgotten their names only half an hour later--just as they probably had forgotten mine...
Swiss bankers just ain?t what they used to be. The federal police office of Switzerland has frozen any and all funds belonging to Slobodan Milosevic and four of his high-ranking Serb cohorts. All it took was a request from the Hague international war-crimes tribunal and the Swiss, long the favored financial refuge of the rich and shady, were ready to play ball. One thing: Despite claims by NATO officials that Slobo has been socking it away in not only Switzerland but Greece, Russia, Cyprus and Lebanon, the Swiss haven?t found any money yet. Which...
...well in class-obsessed Britain, where artists who have (or can simulate) the common touch can count on being boosted by the down-market tabloids. That too is Church all over--her mother manages a public housing project in Cardiff--and it helps explain why the TV "chat shows" took up the young singer and gave her a start, thereby bringing her to the attention of Sony execs...
...hotel room they stayed in a few years back, Heather Rosett and her husband Charles let their two young sons eat pizza in the bathtub; that desperate measure is now de rigueur on all their family trips. On a business trip to New York City, Candyce Stapen took her daughter to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to see an exhibit of Impressionist paintings but wound up, at her daughter's insistence, counting the dogs in 18th and 19th century hunt scenes instead. "It wasn't what I had planned, but it was wonderful," she says. And one weathered traveler...