Word: fortnightly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight," Samuel Johnson once wrote, "it concentrates his mind wonderfully." The threat of impending ecological doom seems to be having the same effect on public opinion. If historians remember 1989 as the year the Iron Curtain collapsed, it has also been the year that concern for the environment reached a new peak...
...fact that Americans are notoriously unreliable when answering questions related to race was dramatically evident in the Virginia and New York City elections. Although several surveys in the final fortnight gave Wilder and David Dinkins comfortable leads (as high as 15 points for Wilder and 18 points for Dinkins), both contests turned out to be squeakers...
Shamir initially denounced the stories as "lies," but later his spokesman acknowledged that the intelligence report existed. While the document offered no specific recommendations, it did say Jerusalem could no longer ignore the P.L.O. The intelligence assessment came a fortnight after a critical report from the prestigious Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University. In a study sponsored by the American Jewish Congress, the think tank concluded that none of the long-term peace options that either Shamir or the Palestinian leadership considers acceptable have any chance to succeed. The scholars argued that moving beyond the status...
Nonetheless, players at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue who just a fortnight ago spoke of working together have dissolved their fragile partnership and reverted to form. Democrats now speak openly of responding to Bush's budget proposals with a plan of their own. For its part, the White House hinted that it may soon ask Congress for renewed nonmilitary aid to the Nicaraguan contras, a red flag to Democrats who repeatedly fought over the contras with the Reagan Administration. Meanwhile, the public is left with an image of the Senate as a cockpit of partisan squabbling, the White House...
When he talked to the nation a fortnight ago, President George Bush did not even hint at the problem. Budgets and inside-the-Beltway bickering over appointees have blocked out real life. Meanwhile, Les Brown of Worldwatch Institute quietly sent out copies of his State of the World report, which will reach 250,000 leaders in 150 nations. The report has become something of a bible on the precariousness of our food supply. Brown's warning: if the drought continues, food security could be a bigger problem by fall than military security...