Word: grow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...enter the final phase of their enfranchisement. Win or lose in November, Geraldine Ferraro is now emblematic of the truest, purest facet of the American dream: that every citizen is entitled to an equal chance. In this version of the dream, the idea is that every child can grow up to be President. Her immigrant father, Ferraro recalled last week as she stood alongside Walter Mondale in St. Paul, made her believe that "in America, anything is possible if you work for it...American history is about doors being opened, doors of opportunity for everyone, no matter...
These and so many more hot-selling pop songs reflect our generation's disillusionment and pessimism. That pop artists have turned their themes inward only mirrors the larger societal decision to turn their backs on problems, which only seem to get worse and grow in number. And, even as we turn inward, it is not to celebrate the individual, but to confirm the complementary social and personal alienation. Such pessimism is a natural reaction to a pretty gloomy future says Travers, pointing to the economic situation and nuclear arms race. Although no panacea exists, there are small changes...
Another reason the trade gap is bulging is that the U.S. has pulled out of the 1981-82 recession much faster than the rest of the world. The U.S. gross national product is expected to rise 6% this year, after adjustment for inflation, but Western Europe's will grow only 2.5%. As a result, the U.S. is sucking in imports at a prodigious pace, while Europe is too weak to buy a matching amount of American exports. The U.S. trade balance with Western Europe has flip-flopped from an $18.6 billion surplus in 1980 to a deficit that...
...cheeks are flaming. My thighs are steaming." When his twelve-year-old son's science project turns out to be playing rock music to the house plants, the consequences for the plants, he writes, are surreal: "They're all deaf and two of them are starting to grow zits. And last night our Boston fern's hair caught fire." Stewart remembers when Bombeck wrote at the Dayton paper early in her career. "I wouldn't say that I looked at her and saw she was making $40 million and said, 'God what a racket...
...problem in the world begins to look unreachable, unimprovable. What could one lone person possibly accomplish against a constant and violent storm of events that on any day include a rebellion of Sikhs, a tornado in Wisconsin, parents pleading for a healthy heart for their child? Sensibilities, overwhelmed, eventually grow cold; and therein monsters lie. Nobody wants to be part of a civilization that reads the news and does not care about it. Certainly no journalist wants that...