Word: beyond
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...reacting in a new context. Had he been applying a consistent human-rights standard all along, he would have been just as exercised about last year's Amnesty report on Iraq, and perhaps the Administration would have supported the sanctions some Congressmen were urging before Saddam's brutality spilled beyond Iraq's borders...
...that is if everything goes well, which is no sure thing. The economists in the TIME forum warned that the U.S. faces a minefield of unprecedented risks that could worsen the recession and prolong it through next year and beyond. Chief among them is the threat of a drawn-out war in the Persian Gulf. That could push the price of oil, which closed at $25.92 per bbl. last week, well past the $41.40-per-bbl. peak that it hit in October. Another serious threat is the possibility of a crisis in the U.S. banking system, which is awash...
Bush, unlike Professor Woodrow Wilson or even self-taught Harry Truman, is no historian. But he has never been beyond the shadow of conflict. As a young man, he remembers, he was "a little bit" aware as the Nazi armies overran Europe. "But the whole concept of the real atrocities and the things now that history so vividly records weren't driven home every single day to America," he says. "You've got to remember that in the end of the '30s there was kind of an isolationist fervor in some quarters. People saying, 'Hey, that...
...millennium, tends to bring forth bursts of energy and confusion. Even in 1990, as the Hubble space telescope peers deeply (sometimes fuzzily) into the cosmos, sliding toward the 20th century's close feels a little like sailing off the edge of the world. No one knows what is beyond...
...entertainment engine. But danger signals are already present: too few movies characterized by nuance, or even good old American nuttiness; more and more disco-dance epics, sickly sweet romances and shoot-'em-up, cut-'em-up, blow-'em-up Schwarzenegger characters; rock 'n' roll that never gets beyond heavy breathing and head banging; blockbuster books that read like T shirts. The combination of the foreign marketplace and a young domestic audience nourished on TV sitcoms, soaps and MTV may be deadly...