Word: warmness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...postwar economic development that has transformed this once depressed South Atlantic outpost into the wealthiest enclave in the hemisphere. Last week former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher received a hero's welcome as she touched down in the Falklands to celebrate the anniversary of the military victory. The warm welcome no doubt included a dollop of gratitude for the current economic state of affairs. Today the 2,050 people who live on the archipelago's 30 inhabitable islands boast a per capita income of $30,000, as compared with the U.S. per capita rate of $22,000. If the upside...
Better still, after Davis discovers her ruse, he allows himself to be drawn into it; he hopes jealousy will warm his old girlfriend as his devotion never could. Before you know it, the fake marriage has turned into a troubled one, with the local minister providing earnest counseling and virtually the whole town worrying about those two nice kids trying to work out their problems...
...have Rollins fired after he urged Republican congressional candidates by fax to "oppose the President" and his support for a 1990 tax increase. Four months ago, when Bush needed to shore up his political position, he hired Rollins' wife rather than the veteran White House operative. Relations began to warm three weeks ago when, according to a senior Administration official, Rollins sent Bush a handwritten letter explaining in detail why the incumbent President would, and should, be re-elected. Rollins even offered to help...
...NINO. To meteorologists, the weather phenomenon named after the Christ child is not a theory but a recognizable and recurrent climatological event. Every few years around Christmastime, a huge pool of warm seawater in the western Pacific begins to expand eastward toward Ecuador, nudging the jet streams off course and disrupting weather patterns across half the earth's surface. The El Nino that began last year and is now breaking up has been linked to record flooding in Latin America, the unseasonably warm winter in North America and the droughts in Africa...
...audience basked in the warm spring sun, Turow discussed his decision to go into law. Parents who came of age during the 1960s may have identified with Turow's shift from liberal idealism to the realization that he wanted to succeed financially...