Word: whimperative
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...shame Stanley Kubrick isn't alive to make "Dr. Strangelove 2: How I Learned to Stop Engaging and Love the Cold War." Half a century after the freeze began with two big bangs and a decade after it ended with a long Russian whimper, could America really be headed back to its bomb shelters? Clinton, the president who tried, perhaps too fervently, to gain China instead of lose it all over again, is now being excoriated as the man who lost the U.S. instead. He gave them supercomputers for their infrastructure, and they used them to build bombs. He gave...
...might serve as the new nemesis. Gramm was going on about how it was his constitutional duty (sound familiar?) to block censure (remember censure?), and would filibuster if need be until the last dog died. On Friday, when Gramm rose to block the measure, it was more with a whimper than a bang. No one much cared. Clinton's enemies are going to have to do better than that if he's to thrive...
...Boston, an urban FM might break the city's unending complacency on racial issues. To take just one example, school busing has been almost entirely phased out, nothing has been put in its place, and nary a whimper of protest has been heard in the past decade. While Jam'n may insist that "the party never stops," the party never started for the Hub's minority children. It is this cycle of complacency that I want to escape; wherever I live next year I hope that it has the type of black musical presence that is both engaging...
...this the way Redmond's market dominance ends--not with an antitrust bang but a contractually negligent whimper? Such an outcome would be favorable to the start-ups of Silicon Valley, where the specter of federal regulation is just as terrible as that of Microsoft. "This is more important than the antitrust case," says Mark Radcliffe, a Palo Alto, Calif., attorney for tech firms. "People are looking for something that doesn't have the taint of government intrusion, and this plays on their desire to let technology solve the problem...
...world: to cook and to pay rent, to study, to watch television, to take weekend trips to Egypt or Italy. These common aspects of college elsewhere (minus the Italy thing) will be quite a shock. An apartment. That probably means furniture. Then again, I may fail at groceries and whimper back here for the spring...