Word: cold
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Russian end of the operation, and space agency officials admit the bail-out cost could spiral up to $1.3 billion. The ISS project is starting to look like a farcical inversion of the 60's space race -- by working together over the past four years, the two Cold War rivals have not managed to put a single component in Earth orbit. And then there's the bill, which keeps increasing exponentially. "This still isn't costing as much as the race to the moon," says TIME space correspondent Jeffrey Kluger, "but it's getting there...
...fact, all the horrors of the past decade in places like the former Yugoslavia would have been treated as good news during the cold war. Any trouble in the Evil Empire was good news for us. If there was a thorn in the side of the Kremlin, we were on the side of the thorn in the side. While the cold war was going on, we actually rooted for droughts, so long as they were behind the Iron Curtain. A drought causes food shortages that could divert military spending or even destabilize the government. I personally drew the line...
...point this summer, I found myself concerned with the deterioration of the ruble of Belarus, a country that didn't even exist during the cold war. According to an article by Michael Wines in the New York Times, the Belarus ruble is commonly called a zaichik, or bunny, because there's a picture of a small hare on the note. Wines' piece included speculation that calling your currency bunny, as if addressing a debutante, might not be the best way to win international respect, even if your economy didn't happen to be a shambles...
Since now. If I were a truly responsible citizen, I'd also be worried about the Ukrainian groundhog and the Azerbaijani chipmunk or whatever those currencies are called. Now that the cold war is over, we not only have all of our worries, we also have all of what used to be their worries. Their drought is now our drought, and no longer something to cheer about...
...boss is getting a bit plump, but I'm confused about why it's all right for the Chinese to do that sort of thing and still be our pals. See how complicated it is? Sometimes I find myself wondering what they did with the Iron Curtain after the cold war ended. Did they throw it out? Or is it just in a basement somewhere with a lot of large busts of Lenin, ready to be put back if everyone misses it too much...