Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...country is not flourishing . . . Our outmoded economy wastes energy, which we have in short supply . . . We have spoiled our land, rivers and forests . . . We have become morally ill because we are used to saying one thing and thinking another . . . The concepts of love, friendship, mercy, humility and forgiveness have lost their depths and dimension, and for many of us they represent only some sort of psychological curiosity, or they appear as long-lost wanderers from faraway times, somewhat ludicrous in the era of computers and spaceships...
...breakthrough was accomplished by skilled undercover work, Government officials told TIME. In the past, investigators had been unable to penetrate the closely knit fraternities formed by Japanese businesses. But in June 1986 the Naval Investigative Service adopted a new tactic when it began probing the Star Friendship Association, a consortium of 160 Japanese construction firms organized for the express purpose of raising prices on contracts at the huge U.S. naval base in Yokosuka...
...Extra-Terrestrial (1982). All of Steven Spielberg's gifts -- his narrative gusto and suburban wit, his technical finesse and an emotional directness that buoys the heart -- blend sublimely in this fable of intergalactic friendship. One of the greats...
...Life (1980). An austere civil servant, terminally ill, looks back in anger on his self-thwarting days and sees, too late, that he has been surrounded by decency and affection. Irish playwright Hugh Leonard traced delicate and complex patterns of marriage, friendship and that old indefinable, love...