Word: drifting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Asked about the greatest changes in the past 50 years many class members mentioned either the creeping socialism that seemed to be attacking from all sides, or technological innovations, especially the automobile and the radio. Roy Jones worried about the "drift of the people away from individual responsibility toward mass regimentation and the control of opinion by radio and other propaganda...
...know things are bad when folks at the White House joke about the good old days under Sununu. SAM SKINNER is taking some heat for the current drift at Bush Central. The White House chief of staff met with top Bush operatives last week to discuss leaks, a phenomenon with which some of those in the room certainly have a passing acquaintance. Assuring the group that he assumed none of them would ever leak, Skinner asked them to help stop unauthorized chatter. Some left the meeting shaking their heads. Many of the most damaging comments from Administration insiders of late...
...Hill affairs to protect his position. Foley let Russ off with a warning, and asked an outside group of bankers to look at the system. Even though their April 1990 report clearly stated that some members were making "excessive use" of the overdraft provision, the Speaker let matters drift until the current scandal broke, which led to the bank's closing last December and Russ's resignation earlier this month...
...There are a lot of homeless children in South Central. Their parents are on drugs, and they discard them. Or they have no homes, and the children drift away. I have seen eight-year-old girls alone by the roadside holding up signs reading I WILL WORK FOR FOOD. What do you think is going to happen to them? All the time, homeless children turn up in gang neighborhoods knocking on doors, saying, "I want to claim. I want to be from this 'hood." And the gangs let them...
...schoolchild looking at the outlines of South America and Africa on the world map may intuitively fit the puzzle together, and behold -- the principle of continental drift...