Word: 18th
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Majestic phrases like "due process of law" require parsing. Even the strictest constructionists would accept that the natural-law thinking of the 18th century is useful in divining the framers' "original intent...
...this year remains relatively small, the industry failure rate has picked up ominously in recent weeks and now involves one of the nation's largest insurers. Two weeks ago, in what was the biggest failure to date, New Jersey state authorities took over Mutual Benefit Life, the country's 18th largest life insurer, with assets of $13.5 billion. Last week state officials said they were attempting to take control of yet another insolvent insurer, the Paramus-based New Jersey Life Insurance, which has 47,000 policyholders. Three large firms -- Executive Life, First Capital and Monarch -- were seized earlier this year...
...have always been a multiethnic country. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, who came from France in the 18th century, marveled at the astonishing diversity of the settlers -- "a mixture of English, Scotch, Irish, French, Dutch, Germans and Swedes . . . this promiscuous breed." He propounded a famous question: "What then is the American, this new man?" And he gave a famous answer: "Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men." E pluribus unum...
Like generations of Americans before them, Washington's leaders are getting it wrong about China. In the beginning, the chimera of a vast market of hundreds of millions of consumers sent Yankee traders sailing to the China coast in the 18th century, though then as now, the Chinese masses had no money to spend on imported goods. As late as 1900, the U.S. sold only $15 million worth of goods a year to China; today the U.S. buys far more ($15.2 billion in 1990) than it sells ($4.8 billion...
...most impudent Epistle published in ye Cambridge Chronicle 18th of April, instanter, a certaine Goodbody Lane doth probable ye Refusal of Harvard College to grant him Ciccuse to emblason upon sundry vulgar Garments: "Harvard Caed Naked Sports." Let us deconstruct this Enormitie...