Word: conquest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...study by UCLA researcher Neil Malamuth found that 50 percent of men surveyed would "force a woman into having sex" if they knew there was no chance of being caught. There exists an unnatural marriage of masculinity to sexual conquest and aggression in the minds of many of our male peers. Surely, the two concepts can be divorced...
...Saddam II, if it does happen, would be nothing like the original--at least not in the stock market. When the Gulf War began, the U.S. was in the throes of a banking crisis and slipping into recession. Saddam was bent on hanging on to his oil-rich conquest. Stocks were down, and oil prices had briefly doubled to $40 per bbl. There was a lot to fight for. This time around, stocks are high and oil is low. The economy is on a historic roll. And Saddam isn't strong enough to upset any of that greatly...
...against low-flying enemy planes. From the outset, balloons are used to study the atmosphere, eventually lifting men to the brink of space (5). Sports ballooning takes off in the 20th century. The Atlantic is crossed in 1978, the Pacific in 1981, both by U.S. teams. But the last conquest, circumnavigating the globe, remains, well...
Four years later in 1993, Republicans swept all three positions and led the oracles to warn of rough waters ahead for the new Democratic President and his fellow Democrats. The failure of Clinton's health care plan in 1995 and the subsequent GOP conquest of Capitol Hill in the mid-term elections seemed to verify this trend. But, it was also predicted that the victories of the moderate Rudolph Giuliani and Christine Todd Whitman would spur a rush back to the center for the Republican Party after their 1992 losses under the conservative banner. (If the infamous House Republicans...
...farmer, he is rooted in cycle. You, you are ill-concerned with repetition, and only aware of some fantastical march, quest, conquest,debauch. And, so you are aware of this manufactured process, and you act upon it. You run as if you were running toward something. But you are only running in circles...