Word: tree
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Brian H. Mazurski said that "people are really barking up the wrong tree" by putting pressure on ROTC. Instead, activists should go to Congress and have them "change the laws governing who can come into the service," he said...
...soccer club from Moscow traveled to Tashkent and made the mistake of beating the home team. Uzbek fans went on a rampage and defenestrated several Russian students at the local university. It was weeks before even rumors of the incident reached Moscow. Now, when Bishop Berkeley's tree falls in the Russian forest, there is a camera crew from State Radio and Television to chronicle the event, along with several foreign correspondents, a visiting political scientist or two and an attache from the U.S. embassy...
...display is divided into nine interculturegeographic areas, said Brown. In the Northwestarea stand totem poles and a largeyellow-and-brown exterior house post carved tolook like a tree. A wooden bear perches near thetop and paw prints trace its path up from theground...
...average citizen has no power over Trump except the sovereign right to ignore him. The exercise of optional knowledge. If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, if a 90-story grandiosity occurs in Gotham and no one is there to witness it, then have either of these events occurred? The second event undoubtedly has. Trump involves certain pharaonic consequences. He sprays his name on buildings and airplanes: a very, very rich graffiti artist. Trump is a man whose ads speak of his apartment buildings as enactments of his "philosophy." Hugh Hefner...
History proceeds in gossip and fractals. Fractals are the mysterious and apparently irrational forms proposed by the mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot, who says that reality has shapes undreamed of by Euclid and surprises that ridicule the idea of order. The shape of a mountain is not a cone. Clouds, coastlines, tree branches, commodity prices, word frequencies, turbulence in fluids, stars in the sky, reputations, fame, the passage of history itself (think about the past ten months) -- all these are fractal shapes...