Word: horizon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have begun with the stock market crash of 1987, which served as an early-warning system for the harsher realities that followed. Tycoons were brought low, and speculative bubbles were burst in everything from real estate to artworks. A junkyard of bad debt and bankruptcies stretched to the horizon. The gulf war heightened the crisis atmosphere and further trivialized the pursuit of the latest fashions in consumer products. There was a faint echo of the '40s: "Don't you know there's a war on, buddy?" While some questioned the battle's goals, for the first time in years many...
...peddling scandal; and the conviction of a prominent savings and loan chief on 17 counts of securities fraud. "It seems we have an unlucky star over our heads," said former Governor Bruce Babbitt, the state's cleanest political light. "Now we'd all like it to pass over the horizon...
...Diversity, Kammen suggests, was one reason why Americans were indifferent to their history. A young, pluralistic nation is united by its future rather than its past. Americans had their eyes focused on the horizon, and history was an impediment to progress. Americans, Abraham Lincoln once said, have "a perfect rage...
...upset the stomach, so it'll be used even by the kiddos. It'll earn gazillions. And boys, they are not going to deal us in on that hand." What Keillor has sketched is the West in Spenglerian decline, with cable and pay-per-view just beyond the horizon...
...houses. Industry then rushed in and created hundreds of thousands of new jobs, but not enough new housing was built to accommodate the needed workers. That in turn triggered a surge of commuters from neighboring Riverside County. Incipient growth controls were washed away in the flood tide. With horizon-to- horizon development came sharp disillusion among the then largely conservative, white Orange County migrants...