Word: bustingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...maybe not," the seers chime. "They will not will this one time. Someone else will take the crown, Someone else with take the town, Another one, who no one trusts, The one that makes the bracket bust...
...begins scaring off visitors, it could kill the golden goose," warns Loyola University political scientist Ed Renwick. An equal concern is that crime and decay are impeding the effort to attract new business, which is vitally needed to replace thousands of energy-industry jobs lost in the 1980s oil bust...
...spirit includes meeting with President Clinton, Vice President Gore and other officials of a surprisingly friendly Administration. The recent alliances are a curious reversal of habit: the Americans, who watched Japanese carmakers bust up their market dominance, are countering that assault by building very Japanese-like bonds among themselves and with their government. "The three of us have had more direct contact with this Administration in the past nine months than existed for the past 12 years," says Eaton...
...seen "a lot of crazy things" in his eight-year tenure at Kirkland; the unpredictable antics of his residents are a perpetual source of amusement. Unfortunately, not everything can be dismissed as harmless, rowdy fun: though he is reluctant to "bust chops," occasionally Bob must "stop kids from doing what they want, because...
...everyone aimed at a drab, fanatical egalitarianism. The nation dressed in rumpled blue tunics that made it difficult to tell men from women, and waxed so proletarian that even army officers removed their badges of rank. Today the society is brazenly materialistic, roaring through cycles of boom and bust that have made millions rich. The free-for-all has also left hundreds of millions in the dust but still eager to get theirs. "People are thinking only about money," says a Chinese professor of philosophy in Beijing. "We are only interested in seizing the opportunity brought by this economic change...