Word: breeds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...breed of young boys will lack this vital entre‚ into the female world. Offering a stick of ossified gum will no longer spark intergender friendships. Sure, boys can always substitute Bazooka (owned, incidentally, by Topps) or Trident, but it won't be the same. It will lack the cultural connotations, the comforting affiliation with the national pastime...
Exploiting this dire need for more jail beds, enlightened corrections officers like Rufo are pushing for "direct supervision" of prisoners, a concept that requires new functional designs. These, in turn, have inspired a creative breed of architects and builders who are capitalizing on the challenge of building facilities that provide the kinds of living spaces that officers can properly manage. "Besides requiring fewer officers to run," argues Rufo, these New Age facilities "cut down on fights, assaults, vandalism and workmen's compensation cases. Most important, they take control of the prison out of the hands of the inmates...
Some experts, like Harvard political scientist Martin Kilson, hail the rise of a new breed of "transethnic" black politicians such as Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder and Seattle mayor Norman Rice. Unlike most black politicians, who come to power representing mostly black constituencies, these candidates have won elections in predominantly white jurisdictions by forging biracial coalitions. Their victories suggest that many white voters are willing to judge black politicians by their performance in office rather than by their race. Blacks will expand the limits of their political power once more of them begin to do the same...
...shareholders became diffuse, while corporate management grew in strength. The new assertiveness by pension-fund managers and stock-owner groups, abetted by the changes contemplated by the SEC and Congress, should serve to restore some power to the real owners of each company. After all, argues the new breed of rebels, that's what capitalism is all about...
...superficially about slavery--about a world where girls had to breed, boys felt the humiliation of having sex with calves, men wore bits and saw roosters who were freer than they women were forced to forget their children and people had their most bestial characteristic recorded by a schoolteacher and his pupils. As a novel which documents the incredible the horrific, elements of slavery it is over whelming...