Word: finned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What was it about this particular year that had so many people running in hysterical packs? Were these mass demonstrations brought on by apocalyptic, fin-de-siecle anxieties about the approaching millennium? By a general frustration with emotional detachments that have characterized recent years? Or by suppressed feelings about other, hidden things that erupted geyser-like in reaction to the news...
...growing pains. Banks have loaned too much money, using inflated property values as collateral. In Thailand many banks have loaned more money than they have on deposit, and some 20% of the nation's lending has been done by especially aggressive, largely unregulated nonbank financial companies. Most of these "fin-cos" are headed for extinction. It's a recipe for a flood of bad loans and higher interest rates. The economy there is headed for a slowdown, possibly a recession, in short order...
...Chinese in an elaborately decorated marble hall of the Main Building at Drexel. With a plush, specially rolled-out red carpet underneath Jiang's feet and gold and blue Drexel banners in English and Chinese characters draping the hallways, Drexel was clothed to the hilt. Painters put the fin- ishing touches on doors just hours before the Secret Service would escort Jiang through. Behind the president hung two enormous flags, each three stories long, of the United States and the People's Republic of China...
...Christian calendars back to a monk named Dionysius Exigus who began the A.D. calendar at the year 1 rather than the year zero. From there sprang the simmering academic debate over whether the new millennium begins on Jan. 1, 2000, or one year later. Based on extensive research of fin de siecle newspapers and magazines, Gould observes that pop culture has generally favored the 1999 New Year's Day as the dawning of the new century. The other view "has always been over-whelmingly favored by scholars and by people in power (the press and business in particular), representing what...
...then we saw in her too some larger allegory. She mirrored our personal anxieties, and the perennial anxieties of the young--for it is hard to believe she was 36 years old. She was truly a cliche of the age itself. Much of the angst of this troubled fin de siecle was indexed in her brief life. Wars and poverty, sickness and prejudice, uncertainty and despair--this daughter of an earl, this mother of a putative King of England was paradoxically familiar with them all: and when the end came, it was a properly symbolic end as, with her playboy...