Word: flare
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...continued quiet in Asia is really the key," says Schwartz. Tech bellwethers like Intel, Microsoft, and Cisco, supposedly the primary victims of sluggish overseas markets, have been rising steadily of late. And at home, potential flare-ups like the Lewinsky scandal ("Wall Street loves stability," Schwartz says) have had no effect on Bill Clinton's approval ratings--except to push them higher. And a military strike on Iraq looks weeks away. "Wall Street is emotional," Schwartz says. All the big players are buying, and when the mood is this good, only a real catastrophe is capable of spoiling...
...Green Bay, it is now not only possible but unremarkable to be buried in a green-and-gold casket, if not in an entire Packers uniform. Philadelphia has had to build a courtroom into Vets Stadium to deal with fans who, in their enthusiasm, have taken to firing flare guns into the field...
...Again and again, characters say, "I was like a walking corpse" or "I was now a vacant house" or "I felt as if I had turned into a bowl of cold porridge." Murakami's storytelling ease and the pellucid, uncluttered backdrop he lays down allow moments to flare up memorably. Yet the overall effect of his grand but somewhat abstract novel is to give us X ray after X ray into the benumbed soul of a wannabe Prozac Nation...
...working very hard, and I should have been home resting. My marriage wasn't going very well, and it was a difficult time in my life." He says that any medication "was doctor-prescribed. It was no more than taking an aspirin." He insists that his temper flare-ups are over. "I had to learn to keep myself together--to understand that drinking excessively can get you into trouble." He says he and his ex-wife "have to stay in communication" because of their 18-month-old daughter Jasmin. "We have to do what we have...
...That type of social flare-up reflects the underlying tensions which still exist even in the most civil situations and which need to be addressed," said Jeannie A. Lang '00, a member of the Institute of Politics (IOP), one of 11 groups sponsoring the event...