Word: horizon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From what I have heard and read from a distance, it seems that the University has yet to make the quantum leap to enlightenment (or, at least, to mutual understanding!). We believed this might happen over the course of the past three years, but it seems that horizon was more distant than we had thought...
...streets where the fantasy of a homogeneous middle-class society can still be entertained, many suburbanites know the city mainly as a skyline glimpsed from an overpass or as the place of a shooting reported on the evening news -- or as a pillar of smoke and flame on the horizon...
...horizon--not so far away, really, but far enough that you can't see them from these lofty heights--on the other side of the river's banks, stand the historic, ivied walls of Harvard Yard...
...impossible to say how Bush's character issues will affect the outcome in November. With the cold war over and no foreign crisis on the horizon, conventional wisdom holds that the state of the economy will decide the election. If so, Bush's personal shortcomings may be irrelevant. Even if Bush were shown to be guilty of all the things Bill Clinton has been accused of, there is a broader context in which the incumbent would be judged. But as the President's record comes under more scrutiny, his performance in office could become as much of a problem...
...were parked downtown. The Wal-Mart on the west edge of Salem was humming. Not long ago, Larimer wrote in the Washington Post about driving east from St. Louis and rarely being far from the sight of a Wal-Mart. He felt engulfed in a new culture reaching from horizon to horizon. "If I had kept driving on Highway 50, the same road that eventually runs through Maryland to Easton, I would have passed more Wal-Marts, in Illinois towns like Flora, Olney and Lawrenceville. Each its own town, not so long ago; now they scarcely seem distinguishable...