Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...never been a culture that made it easy to admit defeat. This year, in despair over malfeasance investigations and bankruptcies, more than a dozen prominent bureaucrats and businessmen have committed suicide. More important, the changes being discussed go far beyond dropping lifetime employment and closing the doors on a bunch of banks. Critics are calling for a complete overhaul of the much celebrated education system and drastic new environmental regulations, not to mention a reassessment of how Japan will deal with its biggest future headache: the world's most rapidly aging society...
...read that right. For to shatter the mighty meteor, a hydrogen bomb must be sunk deep into its core. That means hiring a wild bunch of wildcat oil drillers, led by Bruce Willis, to do the deed. They are all overgrown boys, designed to appeal to the undergrown boys who are this movie's prime audience. The roughnecks immediately start squabbling with the fly-right NASA nerds--representing responsible, clueless adulthood--who must hurriedly train them for space flight, deliver them to their target on time and admit in the end that obstreperous irresponsibility has its uses. Stupid as this...
...outsider, we probably resembled a bunch of teenage misfits--delinquents who never quite matured. And maybe we were. Maybe we should just grow up and act our age. Maybe it is futile to try and go back to something that's long past...
...November--and it's a slim one--is in getting voters riled against a Republican majority that happens to be enjoying some of its highest approval ratings ever. Democrats are relishing the prospect of labeling the Republicans in November as captives of Big Tobacco and a do-nothing bunch of laggards. Within 24 hours, their pollsters were arguing that the G.O.P. had badly misjudged public sentiment, that even if the ads had turned people against this bill, more than two-thirds of voters still want some bill. If the G.O.P. thinks the polls show the public won't punish them...
Much of the joking came from the thought that Ace might end up subsidizing a bunch of guys in gold chains and heavy cologne taking the drug for "enhancement" purposes, as one more hedge against middle-age insecurity, like Rogaine. The hospital will be weeding them out. Anyway, what they're looking for is a pill to cure rejection. Not even Ace has enough money for that...