Word: euphoria
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Although the Dow later backed off the record high, the euphoria may be a product of a paradigm shift in the shaping of economic indicators. After all, it seems counterintuitive that wage inflation wouldn't increase with the ever-expanding job market. "But this may show some things about the new economy," says Baumohl. "Increased productivity means that even though new jobs are being added, the prices of consumer goods aren't rising. And a growing number of employees are being at least partly rewarded in ways that don't show up in hourly wage inflation figures - extra benefits, bonuses...
...life are simple. He likes to tour with his band--playing over 200 shows a year. He likes to get laid back with his fellow "lazy-boys." He loves to paint and watch TV. But time and time again, he finds one factor that consistently prevents his simple euphoria: his ex-girlfriends and a broken heart. Maybe he won't make his bed up straight. Maybe he always stays out late. Nevertheless, this lead singer of Jimmie's Chicken Shack--the self-proclaimed "Music of ADD"--has a successful new album, a broadening fan base, a great attitude...
...friend remarked to me last spring, "everyone is so hot," with their souvenir tans and the sunshine on their short-sleeved arms. Would we appreciate these days so much if we had them all year round? It seems unlikely that a sunny, 80-degree day inspires quite the same euphoria at the University of Florida...
Indonesia would be an easy diagnosis for a psychiatrist: manic-depressive. In the 18 months since former President Suharto was deposed, the country has lurched repeatedly from giddy euphoria to violent despair and back. But despite the ethnic violence, lynchings and looting in major cities and the carnage in seceding East Timor, this sprawling archipelago of 210 million people has not disintegrated into ungovernability or civil war. Some had predicted the world's next Yugoslavia, but after last week, Indonesia had instead completed its graduation from a military-backed dictatorship to the world's third largest democracy (after India...
...abstract art, the 12-tone music, the absurdist theater, the austere furniture, the Manichaean bipolar geopolitics. And so, given my longing for an irretrievable past, I think insularity and exile are the ambient notes to strive for this year, as opposed to your mindless, self-annulling, Leni Riefenstahl-style euphoria. Here's my provisional itinerary...