Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...then there is Bush himself: he promises that what you see is what you get, but then look at what you get: in Texas he tried for huge, sweeping tax reform, but when only half of it passed, he said he was fine with that. So which part of his current tax plan is he willing to compromise over, the part his party donors expect or the part that the $22,000 mom is counting on? Who's winking at whom? Whose fingers are crossed...
...casualty list is growing because the role of CEO is getting ever more difficult. Companies are larger, and technology is accelerating product cycles, so any mistake is likely to be huge. "The situation has become much more complex," says management consultant Ram Charan. "The speed of change is faster. Wall Street is demanding more and reacting quickly when things don't go right. That's creating tremendous pressure...
...Gore plan--the teams of experienced educators with extra money--is inspired by North Carolina, which has brought great improvement to some low-performing schools. But once the teams leave, some schools have fallen back onto the failing list. And the costs of the program, if fully funded, are huge: North Carolina's $6.6 million a year in turnaround money pays for only 14 teams to assist the state's 44 low-performing schools. Gore's national turnaround budget is $500 million a year, and he moves failing schools to the front of the line for funds for after-school...
...which in turn proves equally unworkable. This is as true of nutty little proposals by discontented geniuses--like the idea of communalist, rural "pantisocracy" put forward by Shelley, Coleridge and others in their youth--as it is of paranoid, pseudo-collectivist systems that take over whole societies and make huge contributions to the sum of human misery, like Stalinism. We flawed animals can be somewhat improved, spottily and with difficulty; but we cannot be perfected, which is what the Utopian project, in its various forms, is all about...
...Serb but a member of the U.S. Air Force who served in Bosnia for four months. While there, I witnessed the blatant brushing aside of Bosnian Serbs' needs by the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe because of political bias. The Bosnian war was a huge land grab by Croats, Serbs and Muslims; there were no heroes on any side. Anti-Serb bias in the U.S. media and in the government has done more damage to our credibility in this region than any bombs. It will take years, if not generations, for these people to forgive and forget. Still...