Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...word feature story in the New York Times Magazine described Gergen's career as "the triumph of image." As he bounced from government service, to political commentary, to teaching and back again he was said to have "conflated all the old distinctions" of what it means to be a public servant...
...could try to make the contrarian argument that the ghettoization of crude male programming on cable television represents some triumph for feminism, however minuscule. But what the trend really signals is a feverish effort on the part of cable enterprises to reach a segment of the population not yet served by its own self-identifying slice of not-very-good television entertainment...
...stock market, given the new wild swings we have seen, can't be dismissed as unworthy or foolish. That hasn't been true for most of this 17-year bull market, when only wacky, thin, corrupt or heavily shorted stocks jumped enough to make a short-term triumph possible. And for most of that period, commissions were so high that they ate into those gains for all but the biggest traders, who got discounts from their brokerage firms...
...then there's the Force. What is this Force exactly? Why is it "strong" and why does it force the hand of time and fate, allowing good to triumph in the end? We do know that it is something far beyond the limited scope of human ability. As Shmi Skywalker told her son, it lays a path before all of us, and it is our choice whether to take it. The Force demands we seek out and take up our vocation, with love and humility, with faith and loyalty...
Rather than turn kids' sports into object lessons in doing "whatever it takes to win," we parents should consult Rudyard Kipling (no New Age softy, he). In his classic poem If, Kipling wrote, "If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster,/and treat those two imposters just the same...you'll be a man, my son." Or a fine young woman. And, what's more, a good sport...