Word: banging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When attorney Jack Bryant and his wife began scouting the suburbs around Austin, Texas, in 1988, they wanted the best schools for their two sons. Eventually, they settled in Round Rock, a predominantly white, professional town whose system, Bryant says, "gave us the best bang for our buck." But in Bryant's view, that changed two years ago after Christian conservatives gained control of the school board and tied up meetings with debates over banning Maya Angelou's memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which some members described as pornographic. A dismayed Bryant convened a group of parents...
...WITH A BANG...
...garden to go in front of a shady wall. You will have color throughout the season, and if you plant it according to the diagram, your higher plants will be in the back and the lower ones will be in the front and bang-there's your garden...
...problem is that pop culture represents the free market at its freest, meaning most able to make a profitable pitch to the grosser appetites. Some of the most violent American films, like the Stallone-Willis-Schwarzenegger action pictures, are also among the most successful American film exports because their bang-bang simplicities translate easily across cultural boundaries. Says Democratic Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey: "The free market that the economic conservatives champion undermines the moral character that the social conservatives desire...
...convictions. When a new product bombs, other firms tend to cut their losses. Not Microsoft. If Gates decides a market is strategically important-as he did with Windows and he says he has done with Bob-the company never gives up. "It doesn't matter if we bang our heads and fail," says Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's executive V.P. for sales and service. "We keep right on banging and banging and banging and banging and banging...