Word: giant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Street does) increased 178%, and the industry last year posted record pretax profits of $12.2 billion. More work. More profit. Relatively few people. Sound familiar? Wall Street hadn't been totally left out. Its firms have been merging practically forever, but seldom on such an extensive scale, where even giant Merrill Lynch might be bait for, say, Chase Manhattan. In a bull market, and with consolidation running wild on the Street, brokerages are good stocks...
...disappointed. Here I was all excited about that Giant Killer Asteroid streaking toward our planet. For a few delicious hours, cataclysmic devastation on an unparalleled scale hung in the air, perhaps the end of civilization as we know it. It happened to the dinosaurs; now it would happen to us! Then--bam!--the rug was pulled out from under...
There might even be some survivors when the Big Smackeroo comes along (which it still might--there are a lot more Giant Killer Asteroids out there where XF11 came from). It could erase only 80% or 90% of the populace. You know, getting back to the old model of a few small, isolated farm communities scrabbling desperately for a meager living might be just the tonic humanity needs to knock out some of its arrogance and softness and regain that good old spiritual edge we used to have back when we were all sacrificing goats to the rain deity...
...saying is let's not be too quick to form a negative judgment on this issue should the Giant Killer Asteroid menace reappear. (It's bound to, because, as I think about it, the astronomers probably changed their tune under pressure from the government, which feared mass panic and worse, a possible reduction in tax compliance.) Let's not go running around throwing money at expensive schemes like asteroid-whacking nuclear missiles and backyard asteroid shelters until we at least consider the benefits of letting human life attain a dignified closure...
...show's creators. Now, it may not be immediately obvious why anyone would want to understand a series that features a stool specimen wearing a sailor hat and speaking with the voice of a castrato ventriloquist. But South Park, a cartoon about four profane third-graders, is the latest giant asteroid to slam into American pop culture, and so it requires our attention. Fortunately, it is also very funny, and Parker, 28, and his partner Matt Stone, 26, are the most genial purveyors of poo imaginable...