Word: draggings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They would then have to switch to painful frugality and perhaps be forced into bankruptcy. "Debt in many cases facilitates economic activity," says a Federal Reserve economist. "Like alcohol, it stimulates to a certain point. Then it becomes burdensome. It is not clear at what point stimulation turns to drag, but many people seem to think we've reached that point...
...Denver (19%) and Hartford, Conn. (20%). In South Florida, nearly a million Hispanics (78% Cuban) have spread so rapidly beyond Miami (64% Hispanic) that they sometimes refer to the entire 25-mile-or-so stretch from Miami to the Everglades as Calle Ocho (Eighth Street), after the main drag of Miami's Little Havana...
...postelection handshaking. Pressler and Patterson, says he, "have their own agenda. We know what that agenda is. We have no reason to believe their tactics will change." And if one of their goals is to fire Dilday himself, he says, "the only way I'll leave, is if they drag me out the front door...
Life was restricted elsewhere, too. Says Hohenberg, "At the end of a date, we had to run back to the Quad. That was such a drag. We wanted more freedom...
...future, not the past. The nation's promise tends to override its memories. The best life lies ahead, like a highway heading west. There are American ghosts, of course, haunted rooms, secrets in the attic. But the virtue of the New World has always been its newness. "Why drag about this monstrous corpse of your memory?" Ralph Waldo Emerson asked. Henry Ford never looked back. "History," he said, "is more or less bunk...