Word: america
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...America at the end of the 19th century suffered from all of the same symptoms of a social capital deficit, that we do today. They had the same problem, and they fixed...
...hundred years ago, Putnam says, industrialization and urbanization effectively created the same phenomenon that modern technology causes today. Faced with this deficit of social capital, America at the end of the 19th century founded hundreds of community organizations...
...wear out our clothes. We wear them until the fashion's gone. Then we give them to Goodwill who sends them to Africa or Latin America or wherever, where they undermine local production." Crammed between a table overflowing with professionally worn-in long-sleeved T-shirts, and a rack of cargo pants, Schor declares: "We are drowning in clothes in America...
...first some background. Willis might be America's most musically unsophisticated rock musician. By punching a single pre-programmed rock track on his Tecnics H-100 keyboard and then changing chords with one finger, he sets up background noise for his uniformly structured songs, of which he has written at least 700. He's released 20 or 30 albums since 1994, most of them self-produced, though some appear on Jello Biafra's record label, Alternative Tentacles...
...amount of time it takes to construct one of the yachts competing in this Saturday's America...