Word: fearlessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...because Graham is holding $1,000-a-day seminars for employees of companies like Seattle's Rainier Bank on how to succeed in business by using the Giraffe qualities of caring, sharing and risk taking. Maybe it's a bit much to expect a bank employee to be as fearless as Giraffe L.C. Coonse, a high school chemistry teacher in Granite Falls, N.C., who discovered that an incinerator was producing toxic fumes and, over community opposition, shut it down. How many of us could live up to the example of Carrie Barefoot Dickerson of Claremore, Okla., who financed the opposition...
...strap on a helmet, station themselves at the top of the steepest incline they can find and go like a bobsled. Says Scot Breithaupt of Palm Springs, Calif., a former motorcycle racer: "It's a bunch of death-wish riders pointing straight down the hill. It's dynamic!" Equally fearless are those riders near Vail, Colo., who take helicopters to the high country or ride the ski lifts up the mountains and then charge through the backcountry trails. "I got into mountain biking to escape," says Jonathan Nardone, 34, a pinball-machine repairman from West Islip, N.Y., who bikes...
Even when the public does find a direct link between a contribution and a Congressman's vote, throwing the bum out is not as easy as it used to be. Incumbents with huge campaign chests scare off all but the most fearless challengers. Add to money the other advantages of incumbency -- free broadcast studios, newsletters that are printed and mailed to constituents at the taxpayers' expense, a staff that helps hundreds of local voters get Social Security checks -- and it is no wonder that only 50 of the 435 House races are being genuinely contested this year...
...down to the causes of why sugar is a pathetically precious gift on the day of international solidarity of workers. Our new leaders took a fearless look into the eyes of statistical truth about alcoholism and its consequences. They gasped. A harsh, radical decision was taken. But the emotion, quite justified, was not supported, unfortunately, by a long-range, well-worked-out plan. An appearance of discussion was organized -- in the old way, by fishing for supporting voices...
...easy to exterminate them. Time was when a kindly, old-yet fearless-librarian would walk up to one of these nuisances and tell them in an authoritative manner that'd send tingles down your spine: "If you do not remain quiet, you will have to leave. Talking is not permitted in the library...