Word: familiarly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...familiar edifices of the U.S.S.R. have crumbled; the center cannot hold. Yet paradoxically the leader matters more than ever. Now, in the absence of all those ugly but unifying structures and attitudes (particularly that of fear), he often seems to speak for all that is left of a single country. What he says counts because everyone else is arguing not just with him but with one another. If Shevardnadze's warning comes true and Gorbachev gives way to -- or becomes -- a neo-Stalinist, that personality too must be the focus of U.S. policy and the outside world's anxious attention...
Banned Box The foam "clambox" is dead -- long live recyclable paper! Environmentalists urged restaurants to stop using polystyrene-foam packaging, calling the product a toxic hazard and a landfill-clogging waste. In 1990 someone listened: McDonald's promised to phase out its familiar hamburger containers...
...close friends familiar with Basa's activities, his daring had earned him a nickname. He was the "Hero of the Crossing," the same admiring sobriquet awarded Anwar Sadat after the Egyptian army crossed the Suez Canal during the 1973 October War with Israel. Now, at 40, with a wife and nine children safely out of Kuwait, Basa was headed for jail with phony papers identifying him as a citizen of Qatar. "That's what saved me," says Basa, recalling the story he had carefully rehearsed against the possibility of capture. "I told the Iraqis that I was just another expatriate...
Given his past record in court, Gotti had good reason for his bravado. He has beaten federal and state prosecutors in three trials since 1986, earning the tag "Teflon Don." Basking in the notoriety gained from his court battles, Gotti has become a familiar figure at New York City restaurants, where he has been known to leave $100 bills as tips and to blow kisses at fellow diners as he departs. Still, the suspected Mob boss, who was charged last week with murder, racketeering and tax evasion, just might have a problem this time...
...womb is the first home. Thereafter, home is the soil you come from and recognize, what you knew before uprooted: creatures carry an imprint of home, a stamp -- the infinitely subtle distinctiveness of temperature and smell and weather and noises and people, the intonations of the familiar. Each home is an unrepeatable configuration; it has personality, its own emanation, its spirit of place. Nature's refugees, like eels and cranes, are neither neurotic nor political, and so steer by a functional homing instinct. Human beings invented national boundaries and the miseries of exile; they have messier, more tragic forms...