Word: ah
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ah, but what happens when the fund needs hard cash? That day is coming, maybe in 2013, maybe in 2019; estimates vary. Sometime around then, Social Security taxes paid by people still working will no longer cover the pensions owed. The trust fund will have to turn the Treasury bonds it holds into real money...
...mystery soon becomes the talk of the town, only to descend into overkill in a matter of minutes. Here we have elucidated the trajectory of fame for a few of the people and things we have been hearing about lately. Yet even as we type, the moments tick away. Ah, the flash in the proverbial...
...bolster his thesis, he cites the rise of poignant alternative music, the popularity of earth-toned packaging and the disappearance of clothing with shoulder pads. His students are unconvinced. What was so great, they shout, about an era that gave us Robert James Waller and the Ricki Lake show? Ah, the professor replies sagely, but during the '90s one could attend a movie safely knowing that it would not star Judd Nelson...
...someone say Steve Martins wasn't playing with the usual gusto this year? Ah, bite your tongue...
...exhibit consists of pieces of imperial red parchment mounted on sticks of bamboo. Yes, you heard correctly: bamboo. Using bamboo sticks for a display that questions Asian American stereotypes is the equivalent of triumphantly shouting, "Ah-so! Me breakee stereotypes!" Come on people, get with the program. This is the nineties and the medium is the message...