Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other side of the new schism, Irving Kristol, a founder of neoconservatism (and of National Interest), hears in some voices of the neocon chorus "echoes of the 1930s -- echoes of nativism and xenophobia, indifference (or worse) to Nazism and fascism, broad hints of anti-Semitism." He does not name names, but he clearly has in mind Buchanan, who has created a furor by insinuating that Jews fanned the flames of the gulf war. Kristol believes that in an increasingly interdependent world, "Fortress America" is simply not an option...
DARK STAR by Alan Furst (Houghton Mifflin; $22.95). Plot is less important in this impressive spy novel than description, the re-creation of the nightmarish tensions that erupted during the 1930s between Soviet NKVD agents and Stalin's Georgian thugs...
...Snake River sockeye salmon, but they are also fond of the cheap hydroelectric power that makes utility rates in their region among the lowest in the nation. Soon they may have to decide which they love more. Eight power-generating dams built along the Columbia River since the late 1930s have fatally disrupted the path by which thousands of the salmon once swam 900 miles eastward from the Pacific Ocean to spawning grounds in the Snake River basin. Last year fishery-service counters there spotted just one lonesome sockeye...
Imagine discovering an unscreened espionage thriller from the late 1930s, a classic black-and-white movie that captures the murky allegiances and moral ambiguity of Europe on the brink of war. All the treasured cinematic touches that convey a mood of incipient danger are present -- a dead Soviet agent in a waterfront brothel in Ostend, lonely footsteps muffled by the snow on a dark Berlin street, a worn leather satchel with a false bottom left in a Prague railway station. No, they do not make movies like that anymore. But in Dark Star, Alan Furst has replicated this idealized form...
While employee-bonus plans have been around since the 1930s, the new programs surged in popularity during the past decade. Faced with a massive loss of business to aggressive global competitors such as Japan and Germany, U.S. companies rushed to control labor costs and raise productivity. The new plans help on both fronts, because firms that adopt them typically pay ! employees bonuses only when they meet production targets or when corporate earnings rise. Moreover, companies often combine the programs with other approaches -- such as encouraging shop-floor teams to plan and carry out projects -- that help give employees a sense...