Word: actualities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about one thing ? in this media-saturated age, it costs plenty to make your voice heard above the din. But McCain and the reformers have a point too. If politicians spent less time hawking their souls and kowtowing to their party bosses, they?d have more left over for actual policy. Which is supposed to be why they?re trying to get to Washington in the first place...
...Californian like me, the Civil War always seemed like a sideshow of American history. Out west, most people were more interested in making money than fighting the war--although California managed to donate a few shipments of gold to the national treasury, it never bothered to send actual soldiers to the battlefield. Los Angeles was, and is, closer to Mexico City than to Gettysburg...
Could the recovery be aborted, with an actual relapse? Not just yet. It would take several years of irresponsible borrowing to create the conditions for a repeat of 1997. Such things can be arranged, but the prospect does not seem imminent...
...shows and make fun of Hollywood. Just in case Ted Turner could resist talking chimps, the creators have the fake network run by a mean, stupid Australian mogul to mock Turner's rival, Rupert Murdoch. The real fear is that TBS's Turner might turn this show into an actual channel. Chimps all day may sound appealing, but you probably need some midgets and bikinied women to round out even 30 minutes of entertainment...
...same goes for schools (Catholics and Protestants by and large go to segregated schools), pubs (also largely segregated) and neighborhoods (where to be a Catholic living in a Protestant area can put you in actual physical danger). The segregated Old American South, simply put, has nothing on present-day Belfast, and although there is hope that things will change in the months and years to come (especially with the implementation of the Good Friday Peace Agreement), one can hardly wipe away several centuries of animosity in the space of a mere decade...