Word: abjectly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Generally, though, the mood is not so much one of abject fear as a mixture of resignation and relief. Resignation to diminished expectations, for one thing. The children of the large baby-boom generation are reaching their expensive teenage years, and college costs loom. Something's got to give. Many consumers also feel a back-to-basics sense of relief now that '80s icons like the Santa Fe look, sun-dried tomatoes and goat-cheese pizza have seen their day. Such ordinary pleasures as gardening, milk shakes and fried chicken and mashed potatoes are acceptable once more. Exclusive name brands...
Koreans hoped for an abject apology for Japan's brutal occupation of their country from 1910 to 1945. What they got instead was the Emperor's lukewarm expression of "deepest regret...
...young black males. Looking for an approach to the problem, he considered the way that the Army, at its best, trains people -- teaches them discipline, teamwork and such values as courage, honor, strength, loyalty, pride. The experience, when all goes well, can transform lives. The welfare system institutionalizes an abject status quo and produces generations of angry, mired victims...