Word: chillingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...skinheads? For a time it was difficult to divine how many parts monster they were and how many parts fashion victim. The evidence, however, increasingly suggests that they can no longer be perceived merely as exhibits in the great American freak show, good for throwing a chill into Oprah or obliging another host's ego by breaking Geraldo's nose on camera. Rather, the skins have found their niche in American society. It is a far larger niche than most Americans would like them to have, especially as its inhabitants tend to kill people...
...Slater) is married to Natalie's ex-husband, and the two compare notes about the stinker. "If you can love him, love him," says the ex. "But don't lose you. How's your loft?" If the slumber-party bonhomie (bonfemmie?) seems precious and fake, well, was The Big Chill really any better...
...Atlanta, police observed 100 teenagers and young adults at a rave party in an abandoned house -- the rage among middle-class youths everywhere with money to burn -- and their rich assortment of hooch: pot, uppers, downers, heroin, cocaine and Ecstasy, a powerful amphetamine. In Los Angeles, Hispanic gangs chill out by dipping their cigarettes in PCP (phencyclidine, an animal tranquilizer), while black gangs still favor rock cocaine. Some of the city's Iranians go in for smoking heroin, known as "chasing the tiger," while Arabs settled in Detroit prefer khat, which gives an amphetamine-like high and is also...
...people died when a tramp freighter smuggling Chinese immigrants into the U.S. went aground just off New York City. After hundreds of the would-be immigrants jumped overboard into chill waters in an attempt to swim ashore, about 285 were treated and released into the custody of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, which will decide whether the immigrants should be returned to China. Police said a Chinese gang operating in lower Manhattan organized the nightmarish 17,000-mile voyage of the Golden Venture with the intention of collecting a fee of around $30,000 a head...
...Street now regard with disdain. Investors fret that Clinton's proposed tax hikes and forthcoming plans to finance health-care reform would slow the economy, squeeze corporate profits and thereby bring stock prices down. At the same time, critics charge that Clinton's often wishy-washy style has helped chill business and consumer confidence. "A weak presidency always makes markets very nervous," says Stephen Bell, the Washington-based managing director of Salomon Brothers. "We saw that late in the Bush Administration, and we're seeing it now under Clinton. People are having doubts that Clinton is up to the task...