Word: dirt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...glossy magazines devoted to their interests, boys have made do with car mags, sports publications and backpacking monthlies. Now the unconscionable neglect of the social male teen has ended. Dale Lang, owner of Sassy, the irreverent and successful magazine for female teenagers, has driven across the gender gap with Dirt, a magazine for "L.A. hip-hoppers, guys from the New York club scene or boys in Alabama who are into heavy metal," in the words of one editor...
Thomas should be confirmed. Nothing could send a more powerful message to would-be dirt-diggers and rumor-mongers that the Senate's advise and consent function will not be further corrupted...
...environmental activists has embarked on dozens, perhaps hundreds, of experimental projects aimed at repairing environmental damage. They call themselves restoration ecologists, and they are re-creating destroyed habitats from Britain to Costa Rica and from Israel to the American Midwest. With bulldozers and dredges, they are removing the dirt and garbage that have been dumped on wetlands. With hacksaws and herbicides, they are attacking exotic interlopers that have displaced native vegetation. With shovels and rakes, they are replanting original species of trees and grasses, returning to weed and water fragile seedlings a hectare at a time...
...their claim to that honorific is looking pretty flimsy. First came the check-bouncing scam, when investigators found that lawmakers wrote more than 8,000 rubber checks at their private bank last year, free of charge. Then came word of members' stiffing the House restaurant, where prices are already dirt cheap. Suddenly, talk-show comedians, radio deejays, newspaper editorialists and the mailman were all talking about exactly the same thing: How can members of Congress balance a budget and spend tax dollars wisely when they can't even balance their checkbooks or make good on their meal tabs...
...time has come to put the 1960's to rest. In his book Generation X, Douglas Coupland throws the first shovelful of dirt into the grave...