Word: disbelief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wool sweaters safe in the Dunster squash courts were a distant memory as I posed in the sand, a giant purple vision, as the skateboarders shook their heads in disbelief. The waves crashed, the palm trees swayed in the background, the rollerbladers whizzed by and I vogued for the camera, home in La-La Land. Dorothy said it best in the Wizard of Oz, "There's no place like home...
ECONOMIC BACKDROP Even veteran economists are rubbing their eyes in disbelief at how well the U.S. economy has behaved this decade. For years policymakers couldn't figure out how to reduce joblessness without flaring inflation. The 1990s finally revealed the secret: end the cold war; slash military spending. Pare annual federal budget deficits. Have a central-bank chairman who can deftly apply the monetary brakes to hold inflation down without killing the expansion. Voila! The healthiest economy in recent memory...
...opening lines of Henry V have a seductive charm. Using the humble voice of the narrator, the playwright cajoles the audience to suspend disbelief. It's a bit much to ask, he admits, but might we transform "this unworthy scaffold" of the stage into the "vasty fields of France? or may we cram/Within this wooden O the very casques/That did affright the air at Agincourt?" For nearly four centuries, audiences have readily joined in this theatrical pretense. After all, who can refuse Shakespeare a favor...
...Your decision to refuse Honig tenure has been greeted with shock and disbelief across the University and beyond," the letter said...
...Your decision to refuse Professor Honig tenure has been greeted with shock and disbelief across the University and beyond," 15 senior faculty women wrote in a letter of protest to Rudenstine after the decision...