Word: horizon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pair started smoking crack, which, according to Moore, made Barry "paranoid." During one meeting at the home of a friend, the mayor asked Moore to check out an empty, dark-windowed van parked outside; on another occasion, she testified, Barry thought a blinking light on the Washington horizon was a surveillance device. She described buying coke for the mayor, once delivering $40 worth of crack to him in his District Building office and another time receiving drug money hidden in a magazine from him during a city budget hearing...
...rather European. In fact, even in the clues of personal behavior -- the way people walk, the way people greet you, the way they speak their language -- in all these things, there has been a tremendous change in Germany since the Nazis. I don't see another Nazism on the horizon...
Other, equally ambitious -- and more than likely passing -- trends are on the horizon. "The newest form of chic," says Hartl, "is to learn things other people don't know -- to actually read a book, for instance." That may also be short-lived because as good as it is, contemporary German life is hardly restful or contemplative. "We're still trying to define ourselves," says Schmidt. "Even in leisure we're not particularly at ease." God, in other words, has not moved to Germany...
...atmosphere was definitely changing," said Hunsberger, a former mathematics section leader at the College. "I wouldn't have done it if there hadn't been hope on the horizon...
...paradox is that the 1990s pose a challenge our predecessors would have eagerly embraced. We graduate into a world that sees no war on the horizon, is buoyed by a long economic expansion and is equipped with the resources to bring about basic social and political change. We are the beneficiaries of a victory in an ideological war we did not have to physically fight, confronting a time of profound--but peaceful--competition internationally and in our own troubled society...