Word: decays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...issues are getting confused," Woodbury complains. "It's not the homeless that are the problem. To blame the homeless is not correct. They have enough problems of their own that they don't need to be blamed for the decay of an urban area...
...Vonnegut likes the contrast of Debs' nobility ("While there is a lower class I am in it . . . while there is a soul in prison I am not free") with the grubby hopelessness of Hartke's world. And what about that college for dyslectics? Is dyslexia a sign of national decay? Has the author turned symbol monger? If not, what's the point...
...boom-and-bust '80s may be history, but the banking rough-and-tumble is + now more pronounced than ever. In the U.S. the battered industry is selling assets to recapitalize itself after the debacles of Third World debt, the decay in value of high-risk junk bonds used for corporate buyouts and the collapse of the real estate market in several sections of the country. The mighty Japanese, now far and away the world's biggest banking players, are also being squeezed. Japanese banks face rising interest rates that boost their costs at home and new international capital-reserve requirements...
...Beyond the quirk of a single hand, skill takes over and twirls its mustache. The trouble is that a single hand can run you out of town. Last year's winner, Phil Hellmuth Jr., 24, a tall, weedy youth whose soft face projects an unsettling expression of sweet decay, jukes and twitches to the music of his Walkman. He piles up a fortress of chips, then watches it disintegrate. The last of it backs two nines. He pulls a third nine, but his opponent gets a third queen. Television crews have filmed almost every hand he has played...
...technique the geologists used was based on another sort of radioactive decay. Organisms contain traces of uranium, which degrades into thorium. The rate of decay is known, and by measuring the relative amounts of the two substances in a sample, age can be accurately calculated...