Word: enough
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...finds Lyndon Johnson transforming what were certainly not his finest hours into tarnished triumphs. To wit: avoiding World War II combat for as long as possible and then parlaying a few minutes under fire into a Silver Star; and stealing the 1948 Texas senatorial election with 87 questionable votes -- enough to earn him the nickname Landslide Lyndon...
...level, the debate concerns intellectual honesty. At least one human- rights organization believes the Kuwaiti government in exile may be orchestrating exaggerated tales of horror for political gain. "The situation is bad enough when you consider just the tragedies that can be objectively verified," says Andrew Whitley, the executive director of Middle East Watch, headquartered in New York. "There is no need to inflate the statistics...
Michael Kantor, 44, lost his job last summer as vice president of the United Cotton Goods Co. of Griffin, Ga., a textile company that Kantor says was "beaten to death by imports." He has flooded the mails with resumes, in the hope that "if you shoot enough bullets into the woods, a deer will run into one." He answered an ad in the Wall Street Journal for a corporate financial officer last September and waited months for a response. "As people are scared, they are taking longer to make decisions," he said. That is true, a company official agreed...
...began to keep track of our provisions. Now we could tell how many cans of tuna we had, how many kilos of dry beans. We even factored in how much protein we had, how many calories. That computer gave us great comfort. By October we figured we had enough for nine months...
Though he suffered a stroke 16 months ago, he was able to give the opening address at the first A.N.C. conference held inside South Africa in three decades. He surprised many delegates by calling for a re-evaluation of economic sanctions against Pretoria. "It is no longer enough," he said, "to repeat trite slogans." The A.N.C. leadership decided otherwise. The next day the conference unanimously passed a resolution rejecting any change in its sanctions policy...