Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...print detailing the effect of corporate layoffs on America's standard of living, collective pride and economic morale. These articles left me considerably depressed. The American dream, it seemed, was breathing its last. Real wages have stagnated since the '70s, and high-paying white-collar jobs continue to disappear in times of recovery as well as recession. What it all seemed to boil down to is that children can no longer expect to enjoy a higher standard of living than their parents and instead must contend with a much higher level of job insecurity...
...must push harder. This unfortunate reality for us women is not one which will soon disappear, but one which presents itself as a choice with which we will grapple for some time. Our future will constantly be a battle between these two forces, between academic ambition and the desire for social acceptance, between career aspirations and spousal responsibilities, between professional commitments and maternal obligations. Let us not be discouraged by the challenge of finding the right formula, but let us look forward instead to the fulfilling rewards we will reap when this balance is struck...
...would like her [Diana] to disappear because I think she is a liability. However, as she is the mother of the future King, I suppose they will have to find a minimal--I hope--role for her. She is disastrous in every way." HUGH TREVOR-ROPER, retired professor of history, Oxford University...
...regardless of how many bombs they discover and how many suspected villains they arrest, the Israeli army can never change the fundamental attitudes of the Palestinians. An Arabic daily, shortly after the Tel Aviv bombing this week, ran an editorial saying, "Hamas is a mass movement and it will disappear only when Israel stops its hostility toward...
...found out, as we called home in tears and knew we'd face an unbelievably long commute across the river to practices every morning and afternoon. And classes, how would we ever make it to class? Our grades were going to suffer, our social lives would disappear, and life as we knew it was officially over...