Word: horizon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What's the solution? A New Elvis? There isn't much hope on the horizon. Madonna's exhibitionist tendency alienates many folks in middle America. Garth Brooks isn't kitschy enough and doesn't win over the gospel crowd. And Nirvana just won't cut it with the hygienic...
...year 2000 has long been a fixed point in the distance, a temporal horizon line. In recent years the young have begun to calculate how old they will be at the turn of the millennium. Older people have wondered if they would live to see it. The millennium has also served as a projected launch platform for humankind's most ambitious, far-reaching projects. The year 2000 would be the Year One of a better age, the decisive border at which the Future would start. Now that the destination of 2000 is approaching with a kind of dopplered urgency, people...
Dawn. As the red sun edges over the horizon, a crowd of frail bodies gathers in the chill morning air outside the UNICEF feeding center in Bardera, a small town in southern Somalia. Each person clutches an aluminum pot or gourd to be filled, they hope, with a meal of brown gruel before the day is over. For four weeks now they have been been arriving at the rate of 150 to 200 a day from villages as far as 125 miles away, camping overnight in abandoned huts and making their way to the center in the predawn hours through...
...coup, in half a dozen hot spots. As he is wont to point out, George Bush is the man who receives the midnight phone calls when such crises erupt overseas and who has "the guts" to act. It is August, and there are two dangerous disasters blazing on the horizon. Yet Bush, the foreign policy President, is moving most cautiously to deal with them...
...best way to prevent such a chain reaction would be to stop aggression in Bosnia short of victory. But, cease-fire or no, there is little on the horizon that might...