Search Details

Word: trickyness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Predicting the final shape of an energy plan is tricky. Energy politics don't divide along party lines. When the time comes to vote, liberal Democrats from oil-patch states, like Oklahoma Congressman Mike Synar, tend to line up with the petroleum industry. Detroit Democrats like Congressman Dingell back away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Energy Mess | 2/18/1991 | See Source »

Figuring out how the air strikes are faring is difficult for two reasons: 1) the generals have never announced, even inferentially, a schedule against which U.S. and allied efforts can be measured -- if in fact they have one; 2) they may well have difficulty themselves determining how much destruction the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battlefront: Combat In the Sand | 2/11/1991 | See Source »

Paradigm has become a buzz word for theorists of the emerging world. The term, from the Greek paradeigma, means an example, a model, a pattern. People in business schools, in think tanks, in the White House, use paradigm as a sort of reality thresher -- a way of comparing past and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Paradigm, New Paradigm | 1/14/1991 | See Source »

It was Khalifa who designed many of Kuwait's successful investment strategies, and Khalifa who reorganized Kuwait's oil industry following the government's 1975 takeover of the Kuwait Oil Co. -- a joint venture of Gulf Oil Corp. and British Petroleum. And now, to no one's surprise, it is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toward A New Kuwait | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

Estimating how much of this windfall the Saudis have contributed to the anti-Saddam effort is tricky too. One problem, which also crops up with other allies, is how to figure contributions in kind. Riyadh has given the U.S. an open-ended commitment to supply all the fuel, water and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Uncle Sam Being Suckered? | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

First | Previous | 223 | 224 | 225 | 226 | 227 | 228 | 229 | 230 | 231 | 232 | 233 | 234 | 235 | 236 | 237 | 238 | 239 | 240 | 241 | 242 | 243 | Next | Last