Word: dominos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There came a burst of euphoria when the reactionaries' coup failed. Then the headlong dismantling. Here was the famous domino effect in reverse, whole peoples going uncommunist by chain reaction: Lithuania, Georgia, Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine, Belorussia, Moldavia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Kirghizia. The future, sunny a moment earlier, suddenly looked problematic and dangerous. What of the 27,000 nuclear warheads deployed on missiles, bombers, submarines and at ammunition dumps across the old Union? Would the world see a medieval fragmentation, reversion to the old city-states of Kievan Rus and Muscovy, and feudal warlords with nukes? What of the 25 million ethnic...
...from 1989. Of these, 1,773 provided kidneys, nine provided portions of livers. Six of the living donors gave their hearts away. How? They were patients who needed heart-lung transplant packages. To make way for the new heart, they gave up the old one; doctors call it the "domino practice...
Imagine places where it is considered racist to speak of the rights of the individual when they conflict with the community's prevailing opinion. Where it is taboo to debate the moral fitness of homosexuals as parents, and sexist to order a Domino's pizza because the chain's chairman donates money to an antiabortion group. Imagine institutions that insist they absolutely defend free speech but punish the airing of distasteful views by labeling them unacceptable "behavior" instead of words -- and then expel the perpetrators...
...Domino Effect...
...these troubled times, ostentatiousness is out, austerity in. One person heeding that message is Tom Monaghan, the centimillionaire founder of the Domino's Pizza chain (1990 revenues: nearly $2.7 billion). Monaghan, an architecture aficionado and leading collector of Frank Lloyd Wright artifacts, has decided to abandon his $5 million dream house. Even though it was one- third completed, Monaghan halted construction of the 22,000-sq.-ft. mansion in Ann Arbor, Mich., which he had intended to be the keystone in a development of exceedingly expensive mansions designed by eminent architects. The pizza tycoon, who is shifting his attention toward...