Word: euphoria
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Johnny comes marching home, will the rest of us celebrate by tramping off to the mall or auto showroom? Business-people and investors across America are pondering that question, trying to balance widespread forecasts of at least one more recessionary quarter against the euphoria of a swift battlefield victory. Does peace mean prosperity? If the gulf war didn't start this recession, what role will Kuwait's liberation play in ending...
...prospect of a still powerful Iraq would be far less worrisome if Saddam were not at the helm. His continuation in power would be a great disappointment to the allies. It is conceivable that a surrender, however artfully packaged, would leave Saddam vulnerable to a coup. The euphoria in Baghdad that initially greeted reports of the pullout offer suggests a high level of public anxiety over the war. To have been subjected to such horrific bombings and wind up with nothing to show for it might be too much for some Iraqis. But the decisive question is whether it would...
...relatively easy victory, the U.S. public has settled into a more realistic, in some cases too pessimistic, view of what is to come. The initial uncontested air raids and gee-whiz video glimpses of bombing turned out to be less decisive than they seemed in the first flush of euphoria, and the dream of immediate surrender has deteriorated into occasional fears that nothing will crack Saddam Hussein's will...
...National Association of Manufacturers. But the attitudes of individual buyers determine the shape of America's consumer economy, and they still seem tied to the war's progress. Darryl Hartley-Leonard, president of Hyatt Hotels, figures that "if the war were to end in April, there would be such euphoria that it would kick us right out of this recession...
...East German leader. Charged with issuing illegal shoot-to-kill orders to border guards, Honecker has avoided arrest by taking refuge in a military hospital outside Berlin. Several other former leaders are also under investigation, but most of them are elderly or ailing. With public resentment fading in the euphoria of German unity, Tisch could end up being the only one to face trial...