Word: safely
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...people's behavior is unnaturally -- even unnecessarily -- gloomy, it is easy to understand why. They feel less rich, less safe and less certain about what the future holds than they did in Christmases Past. In the real estate fantasylands of California and the Northeast, homeowners who think they live in a $300,000 house suddenly "lose" $80,000 when they try to sell. In Chicago out-of-work architects are invited to lunch at a soup kitchen for a bowl of chili and some free advice from colleagues who have survived previous recessions. Washington hairdressers report that business is down...
Every time the U.S. has fought a major war in this century, its goals have included the defense of a principle larger and nobler than its own self- interest. "What we demand," said Woodrow Wilson in 1918, "is that the world be made fit and safe to live in." Safety meant the protection of all nations, not just the U.S., "against force and selfish aggression...
...room offer all the flat work space available. Several phones and a single fax machine connect the ministry with the rest of the world. There are two currency counters and enough calculators to ensure that Kuwait Inc. functions to the proper decimal points. A shredder sits near a large safe, opposite a small television set. But CNN, which everyone is eager to watch, is available only on another TV, two floors up -- a Saudi concession, since the kingdom prohibits the public reception of CNN everywhere else...
...radio and listened to the BBC every hour, also Voice of America, which broadcast messages from home. I heard a dozen messages from my own family. News of the military buildup lifted us too. We thought Bush was really going to invade. We even sealed off a safe room with tape in case of poison gas. All of us wanted Bush to hit the Iraqis. When nothing happened, we began to feel Saddam Hussein would outlast...
Guys in suits. Sitting around talking. Grant that their conversations are often agitated. Grant too that what they are discussing is not inherently uninteresting. Even so, this is not the most stirring territory for a movie to explore, and The Russia House spends entirely too much downtime in safe houses and situation rooms with an international team of spymasters and not enough quality time with their agent on the scene in Moscow and Leningrad...