Word: summering
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...This year in Sydney there will be two more signs that these aren't the Victorian Olympics. For the first time, women will compete in weight lifting and the pole vault, once thought of as two of the highest-testosterone events of the Summer Games. Poised to make Olympic history are two American women who came to their sports via goat roping and tree-house building. Since those events aren't yet sanctioned, lifter Cheryl Haworth and vaulter Stacy Dragila will have to settle for medals in what used to be exclusively male pursuits...
...second you sit motionless on the tarmac represents a missed meeting, a lost client, or a wasted business opportunity is sheer torture. No one knows that sinking feeling better than the millions of American business travelers who take to the air each year, many of whom have spent this summer stuck in airports, guzzling Maalox and waiting out a record number of delays and cancelations...
...While no one knows exactly how much financial damage this summer?s flight fiascos have inflicted on the nation?s businesses, the emotional strain has already begun to show: Employees once slated for frequent travel have begged off their assignments and transferred to desk jobs. And although recent Congressional hearings into air traffic gridlock were useful inasmuch as they highlighted the growing problem, no one expects solutions any time soon. In the meantime, many businesses and individual travelers say they?re abandoning their frequent flyer numbers whenever possible and turning to more dependable modes of transport, like cars, trains...
...ground rules. For example, should we not stipulate that at least three of the couple's four feet must remain on the floor of the convention stage at all times? Otherwise, who is to say a presidential nominee and spouse will not try to top the passionate Gores in summer, 2004? With what result? No point in saying that politicians making out have to leave the door ajar, and the lights on. In Los Angeles, the global door was open and the lights were blinding. Al and Tipper's performance was the work of a society relentlessly evolving beyond...
President Clinton spent the final summer weekend of his presidency on a strange sojourn in raw, unfinished Abuja trying to shake other misperceptions about Nigeria. Abuja, like Brasilia and - come to think of it - Washington, D.C., was nothing until the Nigerian government decided a generation ago to move their capital 300 miles inland. The Gwari tribe was forced off its land as the government began constructing its new capital here in the middle of the country. They chose the sparsely-populated region because it isn't dominated by any of the three major tribes, the Hausa, the Yoruba...