Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that he could energize the Christian right and siphon votes from other candidates. True believers are tingling at the prospect. As ROBERTSON IN 1988 buttons blossomed, the amiable Virginian took the N.R.B. platform to denounce the evils of abortion, homosexuality and school violence, all to be overcome by a flood tide of moral regeneration. "We are going to see a change in this nation," he promised his listeners, "and you are going to be a part...
...flood of oil revenue dries up, another kind of wrenching social and political retrenchment is under way among the oil producers, and the risks for world order and stability are unpredictable. If concerned countries, including the U.S., do not act, as Mexico's Silva Herzog put it, with "speed and wisdom," the deepening plight of the former petropowers may lead to upheaval...
...future is not dramatized because the elements of drama no longer exist. Instead, the narrator tells us about 1986, the year humanity took its first step down the evolutionary ladder. The tale is a burlesque that mixes natural history, sitcom humor and the Old Testament. For the Flood there is conflict, economic disaster and pollution; the part of Noah's Ark is played by the Bahia de Darwin, a cruise ship that shuttles tourists from Ecuador to the Galapagos. There are baggy-pants characters including a Midwestern con man, a widowed schoolteacher, a Japanese computer wizard and a German...
Paul Cameron's maniacal rantings understandably prompted thoughtful students to wring their hands and shake their fists. A flood of expletives no doubt rushed into the minds of members of the Gay and Lesbian Students Association...
However, Renoir is only one of the estimated 453,000 visitors whom MFA officials expect to flood the exhibit during its three-month showing...