Word: abyss
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...struggle to preserve the motley amalgam of nations forged into the Soviet Union, they feared that their own Russian Federation might be heading for disintegration. "We are not only on the brink of a crisis," said Valeri Zorkin, chairman of the Constitutional Court, "but on the edge of an abyss...
Despite the criticism, Weicker said Connecticut has "returned from the abyss" with a stable stream of revenue and expanding businesses...
...rescue the people of the former Soviet Union from the economic abyss? It is a question of money, obviously, but not of how much we should give them. The most important task is to help them develop real money of their...
...anger are eating like acids at the electorate. A shadowed mood has been playing across the country. Stories of foreclosures and lost jobs have woven themselves into a virtual folklore. Many who have been accustomed to the upholstered assumptions of the American Dream have discovered what looks like an abyss, something the middle class has not seen before. Looking down gives them terrible vertigo. It scares them, and makes them want to attack the politicians they think have led them to this place...
...year of Reed's friend, the superb songwriter Doc Pomus, uses spare instrumentation and simple language ("The same power that burned Hiroshima/ causing three-legged babies and death/ Shrunk to the size of a nickel/ to help him regain his breath") to stare down mortality and peek into the abyss. The title says it best. The subject is loss, but the music, dark and pitiless, is still magic...