Word: golden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...experience this year demonstrated, the concentrations are not much better on the nurturing-and-briefing front. My tutor last year, a person who regarded me as a hopeless bourgeois Philistine not worthy of his golden words, limited those words to "make sure to take statistics...
...anything Mellencamp has done before. His voice grainy and low over a smacking drumbeat and soulful female backup vocals, Mellencamp conjures a godforsaken land of dashed aspirations and sordid pleasures, where "all the people went completely nuts./ They all busted out on a wild night/ Riding high on a golden calf." The song also echoes the national disenchantment with politicians and the economy. "To hell with all the politicians and the lies," Mellencamp sings. "Recovery, recovery, I don't know about any recovery...
Even if CBS and the rest of the networks all get seats in this musical- chairs game, their chairs may collapse. Basic cable channels launched after the early '80s golden age are by no means sure things. Comedy Central loses many millions of dollars a year, while CNBC is just breaking even. Each of these new channels could easily require an investment of $100 million or more...
...ALSO MEANS, LAMM ADMITS SADLY, that the shift is bound to come at the expense of California. "I think we are looking at some permanent dislocation. And it seems to me very difficult to recapture the golden age of California. A lot of people who once rushed to California are going to come here...
...That is how it's always been -- dogs can threaten the livestock, or the tulips, so you can shoot 'em. This spelled trouble near the leathery Colorado town of Durango last month after the Bakers, a large Californian family, moved in next to an old ranch. The Californians' golden retriever ventured onto the ranch property and ate a couple of chickens. The Californians duly apologized, but the ranchers remained incensed. And soon after, when the dog strayed across again, sure enough, the ranchers shot it. The Californians wrote a letter to the editor of the Durango Herald wailing that their...