Word: ways
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...keep peace. The President ponders a question on whether his current policy is a Dulles echo, then says, "Maybe so, maybe so. What I'm trying to do is convince Saddam Hussein that I intend to do my part in implementing the United Nations resolutions. The way to have peace is for him to understand that. I don't think he does...
Reassuring things, lists. They affirm that the buzzing, blooming confusion of the universe can be reduced to a tidy vertical column. But wait, there's a better way to do this. Herewith the Top Four Reasons Why People Love Lists...
...idea of bestness, however, like a list itself, is an illusion. There is no "best." Bestness is a way of making something subjective appear objective. And best lists are a collection of the biases, or at least the interests, of those who make them. These lists incite a certain introspection too. For example, some of the Values That Made a Resurgence This Year...
...Life Millie, the White House's resident English springer spaniel, earned more advances than any other member of the Bush clan. The First Pooch released her "autobiography," as dictated to Barbara Bush, and then pawed her way past such rival authors as Ronald Reagan toward the top of the best-seller lists...
...strain relations with the U.S. Others have called for air force chief Major General Avihu Bin-Nun's resignation. For now, that seems unlikely, especially given the gulf crisis. In an apologetic letter to his staff last week, Bin-Nun wrote, "I trusted Rami Dotan in exactly the same way that I would trust the aircraft technician from whom I receive a plane before a flight...