Word: dares
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Madonna: Truth or Dare--in Science Center...
...Souza describes a climate of "campus orthodoxy," quoting professors who say they do not dare to speak openly on racial issues. Meanwhile, Newsweek runs a cover story decrying "PC Thought Control." The New Republic calls multiculturalism "one of the most destructive and demeaning orthodoxies of our time...
Never before would we dare question the effectual (LOVE NOW!! LOVE CAREFULLY!! LOVE WITH LATEX!! NO GLOVE, NO LOVE!!!) mechanics of our linguistic structure, for fear of its very demise...
Could he really introduce genuine democratic choice in Soviet elections, terrifying and infuriating apparatchiks from one end of the U.S.S.R. to the other? Did he dare abandon the Communist Party's monopoly on political power? Could the system tolerate a free press? Could the Soviet people stand to hear the truth about their own past? Could they adjust to some version of free- market economics...
...explanation for the contradictory voting patterns is that controlling growth has become a motherhood issue for political candidates: no one dare oppose it. "Nobody in his right mind stands up and says, 'I'm the pro-growth candidate,' even when he is," notes San Diego campaign consultant Thomas Shepard. Voters themselves are of two minds about development. "We're schizophrenic about growth," admits Peggy Rubach, the mayor of Mesa, Ariz., a Phoenix suburb whose population has nearly doubled, to 290,000, in the past 10 years. "We want the jobs, but we don't want the problems that come with...