Word: ism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...government control over the shape of the economy: a system encompassing private, cooperative and state ownership, all working to the common good. They talk of taxes, salary scales, redundant employment, monetary reform, but have no idea how they would really work. "One day Cuba will not use any ism to describe our system," boasts Carranza...
...Shellac "Doris" 2. Bikini Kill "Star-Bellied Boy" 3. Kudgel "Chicken Pump" 4. Rancid Hell Spawn "Axe Hore" 5. Thinking Fellers "Undertakers" 6. Guitar Wolf "Red Rockabilly" 7. Element of Crime "Jaws All Ism" 8. Mecca Normal "Echo" 9. Milkmine "Split Tail" 10. Gaunt "Good Bad Happy Sad" 11. Fat Day "Delicate Cutter" 12. Huggy Bear "Pansy Twist" 13. Hammerhead "Evil Twin" 14. The Ex with Tom Cora "Everything and Me" 15. Disorder "Violent Crime" 16. Mad Scene "Holding Pattern" 17. Bugskull "What Shall I Give to the King?" 18. The Smiles "Lions on the Prowl" 19. Ampersands "Postcards...
...gurgling into South Africa soon. First investors will want to weigh the risks and prospects on the new political landscape. "Like others, we're reading the tea leaves before we decide what to do," said a spokesman for IBM, which sold its operations to a local concern known as ISM in 1987. The most intimidating hurdle that prospective investors face is the continuing level of factional violence, most of it black against black. Only a day after the pact on the transitional council was reached, another random outbreak shattered the night in Johannesburg. In two separate attacks, gunmen with automatic...
Which is, in the end, the only compelling case against the new gadgetry. When it was just a matter of spending too much time watching CNN and Who's the Boss? reruns, American couch-potato-ism was more amusing than depressing. But if the last remaining rich, secular public rituals -- shopping, moviegoing, browsing in the company of human strangers -- become reduced to solitary, freeze-dried experiences, we will have impoverished ourselves. The future, as it happens, will feel futuristic after all. But at least the Jetsons occasionally went out and mingled...
...season before Cronkite left through the season after, the network- news-watching majority withered abruptly, 77% to 68% in just two years, and not because of CNN, which barely existed. Instead, it was simply the moment the nation, released by Cronkite's passing and Reagan's ignorance-is-bliss- ism, started abandoning the nightly-news ritual. Today 1 in 2 Americans over 50 still tunes in one of the network shows. But among adults under 35, barely 1 in 13 watches Brokaw or Jennings or Rather. And Connie Chung is not likely to change that...