Word: cornucopia
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...between victory in World War II and defeat in Vietnam, between the bland complacency of the Eisenhower years and the twitchy paranoia of Nixon's divided nation. It was a time of prosperity and materialism that embraced such pop-cultural Meccas as Las Vegas and Disneyland, and engendered a cornucopia of brand-name goods and futuristic gadgets. The widespread use of plastics created sleek, brightly colored designs for even the most banal household items - from can-openers and telephones to stereos and TVs - while supermarkets, outsized billboards and suburban strip malls came to dominate the U.S. landscape...
...some gut level, the whole idea of electroshock therapy is absurd. At a time when people with mental illnesses can choose from a pharmacological cornucopia, why would they have electricity run through their brain instead? Didn't electroshock disappear around the same time as three-martini lunches...
...Meantime, the cornucopia of sleaze that is post-presidential Clintonism yields up the Hugh Rodham story. Where exactly is the bottom of all of THAT...
...answer is "Nowhere." Almost every government in the world, following the lead of the U.S., refrains from taxing the Internet, for fear of stunting the world's most exciting new commercial medium. But the honeymoon may soon be over. In Europe, Luxembourg may be about to become the first cornucopia of Web sales taxes--at least if the European Union's executive body, the European Commission...
...what to do when the party ends simply aren't on the table in this election cycle. Yet most economic textbooks confirm that the economy runs in cycles and that even the most brilliant silver lining is attached, somewhere, to a cloud. After all, it's not a cornucopia; it's an economy, stupid...