Word: decays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...read Robert Nozick, a Harvard professor, I think he's a Libertarian or at least a man of the right--to read someone like that or to talk to [William F.] Buckley is to learn that there are aspects of the conservative message that are interesting, moral decay and so forth, although I don't necessarily agree with where they pinpoint...
...sign that the age of identity politics is over. Jim Sleeper, for instance, writes in Newsday, that "Giuliani's victory is part of a national political realignment based on an emerging consensus: Liberal Democrats' `Rainbow' racial and sexual identity politics and their obsession with `root cause' explanations for social decay made them thunderously wrong about how to fight crime, stimulate employment, provide welfare, and improve public education...
...walk through New Bedford's dingy downtown reveals extent of its decay...
West spoke of the dangers of the current period of "transition," where he said the growth of transnational corporations have contributed to the decay of democratic institutions which could serve as controls on wealthy and powerful elites...
...lack of modernized climate control systems has led to significant book decay. Nearly three out of four of Harvard's folios dating from 1800 to 1950 were declared "imbrittled," in a recent sample survey...