Word: closer
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...multinational corporations at the expense of the environment and the poor. An affiliation of activist organizations coalescing as the Mobilization for Global Justice, the group showed up again later in the year to disrupt a monetary conference in Melbourne, Australia. Just as graphic as the IMF protests, and hitting closer to home, was the violence associated with the Firestone tire problem. On Aug. 9 the U.S. subsidiary of Japan's Bridgestone Corp. said it was voluntarily recalling 6.5 million Firestone tires owing to safety concerns. If you owned a Ford Explorer, the country's best-selling SUV, you probably...
...space station, and astronomers (armed with a new generation of smart telescopes and a fleet of clever space-going robots) snapped brilliantly sharp pictures of fire storms on the sun and watermarks on Mars, and brought the number of planets discovered outside our solar system to nearly 50. Closer to home, this was the year they cloned a pig, approved an abortion pill and took saccharin off the list of known carcinogens. It was also the year that gene therapy, having shown promise in treating a pair of French "bubble boys," suffered its first casualty--a brave young patient named...
...cuts to new programs, as long as they don't flood a thriving economy with cash and pose an inflation risk. (By his own job description, Greenspan's main obsession is fighting inflation.) But Greenspan is fully aware that this business cycle, even in its current flattened form, is closer to the trough than the apex, and that's largely his doing. Tax cuts may not be the answer to the slowdown, but they probably wouldn't hurt...
...Arguing about what to watch strengthens sibling relationships, at least in the long haul. (Note to Kimberly and Charles: I forgive you for all those episodes of Fantasy Island.) Without conflict and hard-won resolution, our kids might be quieter, but they wouldn't be any closer. Besides, as my mother used to say, "You can always see it in reruns...
...artist] was closer to cinema than any other painter of his day, partly because he was obsessed by the power of cinema to make dreams immediate...