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Word: directionless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...read other people's advice, even when (as in the guide), it entails filling out quizzes and saying that my work style and interests are "blue" and "green" (I don't quite understand it either). At least then I can try to convince myself that I'm not completely directionless in life...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Summer Offers Time for Pleasure Reading | 7/16/1996 | See Source »

...build a series of convincing melodic statements on his alto sax. Redman ended the set back on tenor, first recapitulating the irresistably "bright melody of "Una Muy Bonita" and then into a long cadenza that displayed his considerable chops. After the cadenza, however, Redman led his group into another directionless modal...

Author: By Eric D. Plaks, | Title: Redman Quartet Concert 'A Trip' | 11/9/1995 | See Source »

Third-party thinking thrives on a sense that the two parties are both corrupt and directionless, interested in their own tenure rather than real reform. And the most urgent business in need of reform-the wellspring of the Perot campaign-was the yawning federal deficit that a Republican President and a Democratic Congress were unable and unwilling to do anything about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CLINTON VS. CONGRESS: THE RACE IS SET | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

Professors credited Carnesale with turning the school around. Prior to Carnesale's leadership, the faculty was divided and directionless--plagued by low morale and a lack of a unifying vision, consequences of an expansion in the 1980s that occurred too rapidly...

Author: By Elizabeth T. Bangs, | Title: After a Year, Carnesale Still Holds Two Jobs | 5/12/1995 | See Source »

...when they agreed to deregulate S&Ls and bankroll the military during the 1980s? Our hopeless national debt is the legacy of that chumminess. At such times the politicians either award bucks to their friends or bring contracts to their home states. We can't afford to have the directionless Democrats cuddling up to the Republicans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters , Jan. 30, 1995 | 1/30/1995 | See Source »

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