Word: humaneness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...boom confined to the dotcom universe. In nearby Montgomery County, Md., just north of the District of Columbia, a new set of novel names and acronyms studs the suburban landscape. Biotechnology start-ups such as Genetic Therapy, Human Genome Sciences and GeneLogic and established health firms such as EntreMed and MedImmune fan out around the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda. Two hundred of the 300 biotechnology firms in Maryland are located in Montgomery County, whose median household income is $77,774 (ninth nationally). Montgomery County ranks sixth in the nation as having households with incomes...
...been Governor of Texas, my daddy was President...Their fraternity had it for eight years, [so] give it to ours for eight years.'" President Bush shot back on the Today show with a threat to "tell the nation what I think about him as a human being and a person." (With those words, he did.) Then Dick Cheney, who was President Bush's Defense Secretary and is candidate Bush's running mate, sidled up to the lectern in Philadelphia and said, "Mr. Gore will try to separate himself from his leader's shadow, but somehow we will never...
...season--not of baseball but of politics--because not only did he embody the best of America while he fought off the worst but also he always expressed a straightforward, unapologetic, sublimely corny love of country that is no longer heard in presidential-election rhetoric. "I believe in the human race," Robinson said. "I believe in the warm heart. I believe in the goodness of a free society. And I believe that the society can remain good only as long as we are willing to fight for it and to fight against whatever imperfections may exist...
...most cliche-ridden Presidents were also our greater ones. "Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years but by the lifetime of the human spirit," said Franklin Roosevelt. "Democracy," said Woodrow Wilson, "is more than a form of government. It is a form of character." Lincoln: "I hold that while man exists it is his duty to improve not only his own condition but to assist in ameliorating mankind." Lincoln was a supremely corny speaker--at least he would be so judged today. He began a noted speech at a battlefield with references to liberty...
...French emphasis on human contact, so pleasant when establishing your favorite boulangerie and cafe, becomes ridiculous when the woman in charge of archives refuses to let a machine replace her and insists on processing every back issue request herself. In the U.S. the phrase "the customer is always right," is gospel. In France, the client comes last. Every single store, except those in the Jewish quarter, closes on Sunday. Literally half the city goes on vacation in August. Our shower head emits water in a weak trickle, despite multiple complaints to my concierge, it will most likely never be fixed...