Word: forgets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...early '80s, only to see the mid-decade glitz dissipate in the 1987 stock-market crash and the recession of 1990-91. Gen X could never presume success. In their new book Rocking the Ages, Yankelovich's Smith and his colleague Ann Clurman blame Xers' woes on their parents: "Forget what the idealistic boomers intended, Xers say, and look instead at what they actually did: divorce. Latchkey kids. Homelessness. Soaring national debt. Bankrupt Social Security. Holes in the ozone layer. Crack. Downsizing and layoffs. Urban deterioration. Gangs. Junk bonds...
...cleaner." The morning of his speech, he had overflown the Willamette National Forest, its mountaintops scalped by clear-cutting. But rather than preaching doom, he boasts of recent blockades to protect old-growth enclaves. "I hate environmentalists who are always grouchy," he explains afterward. "They forget the joy of making a difference...
...Forget all this stuff about global telephone wars, deregulation and anticompetitiveness. Policy wonks can ponder such issues all they want in view of the possible $50 billion merger of long-distance king AT&T with regional phone operator SBC Communications. Investors need consider only one thing to conclude that the deal is a loser: break-ups almost always are more valuable than megamergers, and AT&T's own history provides a storehouse of evidence. That this deal is even on the drawing board is more confounding than Dennis Rodman...
...around. The songs on the new album dwell mainly on how relationships fall apart, a subject that's been dealt with in pop songs ever since pop songs began, and Foo Fighters fails to contribute any new insights. On one song, Up in Arms, Grohl actually sings, "I cannot forget you, girl." It's hard to believe he can offer up a toothless lyric like that after the passionate wordplay of Nirvana lyrics like, "Stay away/ God is gay." Sure, Kurt Cobain wrote Nirvana's lyrics, but Grohl should have paid attention...
...Whether simply raising the language requirement would meet our goal is highly questionable," says Professor of Chinese History Peter K. Bol. "To teach all students a language so they would never forget it would probably require more time than can be expected. To raise the requirements of students who are there against their will is not what any language teacher wants...