Word: cools
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Germany-Russia soccer match, and the four argued about whether Russia's defeat would cause voters to hit the vodka bottle rather than vote during the two hours remaining before the polls closed in the country's western region. "We peaked too soon," Dresner screamed. Only Shumate seemed cool. He had long before concluded that Zyuganov would never get more than 32% of the vote in the first round--the combined total the Communists and their ideological soul mates had reached in the December 1995 Duma election. "This stinks," Dresner repeated every few minutes as he checked the turnout around...
Those who think it is too close are pinning their hopes on the Federal Reserve Board to cool the economy by raising interest rates more than bond traders already have. But the Fed at a meeting last week decided for the moment to do nothing. One reason: Chairman Alan Greenspan is not at all the antigrowth fanatic he has often been called. He is known to believe the key signals of inflationary danger are bottlenecks in the economy: shortages of labor or goods that drive up wages and prices. Apparently he sees no conclusive signs yet that such bottlenecks...
...Tofflers who brought futurism to the masses. Future Shock made the new profession cool. The book and its best-selling sequels, The Third Wave (1984) and Powershift (1990), examined not just tomorrow but today, not just one industry but all mankind, making the paradigm-shattering argument that what was really changing society was the radical acceleration of change itself. Future shock, the Tofflers said, is what happens when change occurs faster than people's ability to adapt to it. The book resonated for the 1960s counterculture, and in some ways it echoes even louder in the digital era. "People today...
Once upon a time, a 153-lb. chemistry teacher named Julius Kelp wanted to grow big and strong, or anyway be smooth and cool--sort of like Frank Sinatra on a bad ego day--and in his lab he concocted a formula that permitted him to realize that dubious dream. Thus was The Nutty Professor, central work in the Jerry Lewis oeuvre, born...
...expected it to attract the most reclusive--and eccentric--of the literary breed? After nearly four decades in hiding, novelist THOMAS PYNCHON has come out as a fan of the band LOTION. The author of Gravity's Rainbow wrote liner notes for the group's latest album, Nobody's Cool, and furthermore, brings them not-to-be-scoffed-at publicity via his interview with the band in the June issue of Esquire. Pynchon first befriended Lotion like any other groupie--by religiously attending the band's shows. (He's had other musical interests: he wrote the liners for Spiked...