Word: turned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hope, then, is that in the event that we twenty-somethings have to put our banking careers on hold and turn to making our real mark on the world for at least a little while, that we do it with a little more thought and rationale than our predecessors. Not only will we get our respective points across, but perhaps we'll do it skillfully enough that instead of everyone forgetting about activism when the good times return, people will retain a healthy sense of service in their daily lives...
Every time I turn the radio on, the first question I ask myself is whether Monica Lewinsky will once again make the headlines. Most of the time, she does. And most of the time I wonder if there is not something more important to talk about...
Public officials and Americans everywhere are asking whether the President still has the moral authority to govern. Who are we to talk about morality? We are destroying a family. For reasons I do not quite understand, we are allowing the press to turn this private matter into a national crisis. We are allowing the people in office to use this scandal as an opportunity to play political games. We are watching a family fall apart. And what are we doing? Certainly not asking for it to stop, but condemning the President for his lack of morals. It's more than...
...Considering Tripp's low standing in the public esteem, such a probe may turn out to be a bold p.r. move on the prosecutor's part. Couple it with the ongoing investigation in Maryland over whether Tripp knew her wiretap was illegal, and it adds up to a whole lot of trouble for the informant extraordinaire. Not to mention what may become -- in female eyes, at least -- the most inexcusable charge: that she persuaded Lewinsky not to wash the stained Gap dress by telling the former intern she "looked fat" in it. "I hate Linda Tripp!" a tearful Lewinsky told...
...seems amazed himself at the doctrine's horrifying logic. In the episode on detente, Winston Lord, an aide to Henry Kissinger during the Nixon Administration, describes a summit at which Soviet leaders spend hours hectoring the Americans over Vietnam but then, having created a record to send to Hanoi, turn jovial and break out the vodka...