Word: unfitness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...practiced law for a living -- Baker has always been charmed by courtroom analogies. "At the presidential level," he explained, "the stakes are so high, and are seen as so high by the voters, that the trick is to cause people to view your opponent as somehow 'guilty,' as being unfit for the top. Especially if you're the incumbent, if you create just a reasonable doubt about the challenger, he's convicted...
...irony of 1992 is the effort to paint Perot as a flake--a man whose on-again/off-again routine makes him unfit for office. But, after months of bad-mouthing Perot, Bush and Clinton rushed to court his supporters the instant he bowed...
...brought this issue into the news, revealing yet another facet of America's painful obsession with the definition of human life. Many advocates for children's welfare feel that a mother who would take drugs or act in other irresponsible ways during pregnancy has shown herself to be an unfit parent. Yet it is evident that prosecuting such women for child abuse would effectually decide the abortion question in favor of the "rights of the unborn," and possibly invade the woman's privacy as well...
...their position might be some thing like this: If the fetus is not called a person, some "children" will be sent home with negligent parents who cannot be prosecuted as abusers. But if it is called a person, many more children will be born to negligent parents who are unfit to raise them and would have had abortions if they were allowed. "The greatest good for the greatest number" is the only principle that enables one to put a bold face on the situation...
...into competitive sports. But in a nation with only 60 swimming pools, there are 10 elite diving schools. Students are supervised virtually nonstop, cut off from families unless relatives happen to live nearby, forbidden to date until their 20s and expected to train so hard that most wind up unfit for work outside athletics. Some are left virtually illiterate in a land where, by Confucian tradition, intellectual pursuits are prized over physical ones. In exchange, athletes (and often their families) enjoy better jobs and housing. They wear imported athletic clothing. If they make the 20-or-so-member national team...