Word: casualness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact is that the drug situation is more analogous to alcohol and Prohibition than any kind of cultureravaging force than Dan Quayle imagines. The market for drugs might expand if it were legalized, but at some point it would stabilize--just as many people are casual users or adverse to alcohol, we can expect a similar reaction to drugs. Some people just won't like the taste, smell or health hazards of the stuff and others will be too conservative with their money to splurge on such perks...
Often the targets and emphases of the Republicans' family-values campaigns seem a bit off. What worries parents most is a sense that they have little control over the world in which their children are growing up, over its temptations, its drugs, its overheated sex, its atmosphere of astonishing casual violence. Last week on the family-values dais in Houston, after Bush's acceptance speech, Arnold Schwarzenegger was a conspicuous honored guest. In the first few minutes of Terminator 2, parents do not fail to notice, Schwarzenegger, in order to steal someone's motorcycle and clothes, drives a long-bladed...
...Barbara Bush's family reunion and "Gampy's" casual arrival...
With a glance at a note card, Bush hit the need to compete globally and once again identified education and safe streets as requisites. But once again, no specifics of note. In fact, a brief discussion of drug policy illustrated the President's casual attitude toward domestic issues and the degree to which politics drives policy. During the 1988 campaign, hardly a day passed without Bush decrying the evils of drugs. He knew how to end "this scourge," he said repeatedly; he'd learned "a lot" about the problem at the cia and as the head of President Reagan...
...York suburb where Yusuf Hawkins, a Black sixteen-year-old, was shot to death in 1989 by a group of Italian-Americans who thought he was dating a local girl. Resisting what she calls the "mandolin and macaroni" depiction of Italian-American uraban life, she recalls grimly the casual racism and violence of life in Bensonhurst, and the stifling nature of community life there. "What you don't want known in Bensonhurst you don't do," she writes...