Word: copes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crossed is too melodramatic a term for Colonel Vasily Tsibliyev, Mir's commander. Stressed out is probably more like it. Like the Mir spacecraft itself, Tsibliyev is worn down and in danger of falling apart. He has been aboard the aging space station since February and has had to cope with nonstop crises: a fire, breakdowns in oxygen and cooling systems, a collision with a cargo ship and last week a power failure. No wonder he's suffering from an irregular heartbeat and taking sedatives...
...families of both Michael Carter and his suspected assailants, there are only long days and nights trying to cope under the deepest pain, a pain made deeper by gazing through, say, the Hollis family photo album, or peering into Carter's empty bedroom, or awakening to hear Tyrone Reyes sobbing on the phone from prison asking his mother Marjorie Toins, "So how long you think this is gonna take?" Toins worries that neither Tyrone nor Terrance, her only children, understands the seriousness of what he is up against. "I don't think that it has sunk in that they...
...issue for Chinese on both sides of the new internal border is not only whether Hong Kong's system of advanced capitalism under the rule of law can be grafted onto the stunted system of Chinese socialism, but how, over the long term, the motherland and the former colony cope with the new realities. For the rest of the world, only beginning to come to terms with the prospect of China as a 21st century superpower, Beijing's management of Hong Kong will serve as the litmus test of its ability to operate within the constraints of the community...
...statement in Robert Wright's commentary on how people cope with technological change [VIEWPOINT, May 26] was, "Computers don't take people's jobs by acting like people." Kasparov's frustrating moment did not come after his initial loss; that moment arrived when he realized that even though he was the consummate professional, he couldn't adapt and think like his nemesis. HENRY SIKORSKI Garden City...
...today's twentysomethings have learned to cope. They may be cynical about institutions, but they remain remarkably optimistic as individuals. At least half believe they will be better off financially than their parents. And an astonishing 96% of Gen Xers say, "I am very sure that one day I will get to where I want to be in life"--showing far more confidence than boomers did a generation ago. For all their ironic detachment, today's young adults embrace an American Dream--albeit one different from the vision their parents or grandparents...