Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...market plunge has forced many institutional investors in Japan to dump foreign holdings to bolster their dwindling supplies of cash. While Japanese industrial giants still crave strategic mergers with glamorous U.S. firms, as in the case of Matsushita Electric's expected bid for Hollywood's MCA, they are less apt to invest in American real estate. Several Japanese investment firms that bought U.S. buildings during the 1980s are now quietly putting the edifices back on the market...
...fear of the dandruff police compels me to use it. I am not alone, either. All four shampoo bottles in my shower promise "relief from itching and flaking." One roommate, whose girlfriend wouldn't dump him even if he suddenly sprouted a third nostril, still uses the stuff religiously. ("Gosh, if she notices flakes, it's all over.") My roommate Rocco, who sports a bald spot the size of Australia (thanks to my unpolished hair-cutting skills) is certain that flakes will doom his hopes at romance...
Because the fact is, it's okay to have a few flakes. To be honest, I misled you when I suggested that my date was so petty as to dump me over a few flecks of dandruff. Nothing could be further from the truth...
...Navy teaches them to fight and to kill people with snout-mounted .45-cal. guns. Said Richard O'Barry, dolphin trainer for the 1960s television series Flipper and now an opponent of all captivity for the endearing mammals: "We capture them, we use them, we abuse them, then we dump them." Although dolphin expert Joseph Geraci of the University of Guelph in Ontario reported finding no signs that the San Diego center mistreats the creatures, the aquarium, which has made similar transfers before, put the plan on hold. Said executive director John Prescott: "We want to satisfy any anxiety raised...
...cynicism of the disaffected young. He was too quick, it was said, to detect the smell of society's insulation burning -- and to sigh "So it goes" -- when there was nothing more in the air than, say, a harmless whiff from a distant war or the neighborhood toxic-waste dump. No more; his news in Hocus Pocus is that our charred insulation no longer smolders. It has burned itself out, and civilization's great, tired machine is not dying, but blackened and dead...