Word: decays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Every day, the mail carrier would walk by our office and look in sadly, shrugging his shoulders as he rushed past the dank stench of decay that loomed ominously across our threshold...
Roosevelt condemns the Weld-endorsed plan to legalize gambling in Boston Harbor as "short-sighted" and as a catalyst for "cultural decay...
Physicists were hoping that data from the supercollider would help them formulate a Grand Unified Theory connecting the four fundamental forces of nature: gravity, electromagnetism, the strong force binding the components of nuclei and the weak force involved in nuclear decay. Experiments using the supercollider would have proved or disproved key theories in particle physics...
...Cuba is a land of dreams, it is because reality is too cruel. Ana's house is a perfect metaphor for the country crumbling around her: the whole economy is in a state of advanced decay. After more than 30 years of Soviet-style socialism, life has turned much worse during what the Cubans call the "special period," the four years since the Berlin Wall crashed and carried away the Soviet lifelines. Cuba must now fend for itself...
...current $4 trillion debt was created. These expenses created no long-term sources of wealth or improvements in public welfare. Instead, they subsidized unproductive defense jobs and massaged the middle class into voting Republican. This wasteful expense sustained an artificial prosperity while allowing serious problems, like urban decay and inadequate medical coverage, to go unresolved. It was, in fact, the cause of our current economic problems...