Word: junking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...good news is that lots of people prospered. This was the age of financial wizards making fortunes in their 20s, and roughly 100,000 Americans became millionaires every year. Michael Milken, the junk-bond king at Drexel Burnham Lambert, set the record by earning $550 million in 1987. The bad news is that while the top 20% of American families' earnings rose more than $9,000 (after adjustment for inflation), to an average of nearly $85,000, the bottom 20% dropped by $576, to a hungry $8,880. The Government estimates that 32 million Americans -- 12.8% of the population -- live...
...soon replace the stamped envelope. They turned out to be wrong. The true expression of 21st century communications is one fax machine talking to another. Modern high- speed facsimile technology has opened the telephone lines to everything from blueprints to fingerprints, including unsolicited, unwanted faxes -- the 1980s version of junk mail...