Word: fears
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bernard Baumohl. "What they'll realize is that only once in recent memory did the Fed actually raise rates following a bias shift in that direction." Of course, this walk-on-water economy of ours hasn't given Greenspan cause to raise rates in quite a while either; the fear is that that could change. Baumohl says Greenspan, as always, will wait and see. "Those price numbers were just the whiff of inflation," he says. "Raising rates now could have put the feeble Asian recovery in jeopardy." What keeps the markets happy is that...
However, it would be wrong to see the protests as mere expressions of government propaganda. The fear of U.S. hegemony is real, and now that Beijing is trying to cool the protests, it is finding it difficult to put the genie back in the bottle. Many protesters are convinced the May 7 bombing was intentional: while we take American benevolence for granted, residents of other countries may look at continued U.S. dominance with apprehension. Any policy that shows a willingness to use force to achieve humanitarian ends frightens countries with human rights problems. Intervention on behalf of the Kosovar Albanians...
...mile gash northeast through a corner of Oklahoma City and several suburbs over an endless four hours. Thousands of Oklahomans heard the shriek of the warning sirens gradually overwhelmed by a sound variously described as like a locomotive, or a screaming jet engine, or nothing on Earth. The worst fear, said Moore resident Delee MacAlister, "is the terror of knowing you are going to die. We prayed aloud: 'God save us! God save us! God save us! O, God!' It lasted for an eternity...
Brandy's biggest fear is losing her stardom in scandal: "I'm scared of ever making one mistake where tabloids and magazines can make me look like something I've never been." So far, though, her life has been pretty much an embarrassment-free dream. Her latest record, Never S-A-Y Never, isn't just double platinum, it's quadruple platinum. She has worked with Whitney Houston (on Cinderella). Now she's working with Ross. Even Brandy's dad, Willie Ray Norwood Sr., is impressed by this latest pairing. "I've loved Diana Ross my whole life," he says...
Worse, you just don't end up with a novel. While he capitalizes handsomely on the freedom afforded by fiction (so many more people you can zing without fear of libel!), Andersen is hamstrung by the overall structure that the genre demands. His sentences may sparkle, but the book's forward motion is a sputtering lope. Its loose, digressive shape makes Turn of the Century awfully easy to put down...