Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...habit, but in fact he had simply run out of money. In 1987, as his insurance business began to recover, Marc started going to the track again. He conned his wife into letting him take out a second mortgage on their home, telling her it was for investment; he lost the money gambling. His wife threatened divorce, and a business acquaintance from whom he had borrowed money that he did not repay clubbed him over the head. That is why Marc has a steel plate in his head. After a failed suicide attempt, he entered a self-help group...
...this decade, Americans and America watchers have been obsessed with the idea that the United States is in decline. Soaring deficits and rising imports mean the eagle is falling, wrote so many doomsayers, who churned out tome after tome documenting their claims. America was losing--or had already lost--its competitive edge to the Japanese, and the only way for the U.S. to climb back to the top was to model itself after Japan...
...typical first-night fashion, I wandered around campus, drank a lot, lost my roommates and met a man named Jason who claimed to be the evil being from the Friday the 13th movies...
...rage of race is exactly what has stirred a righteous debate over Lee's movie. After it lost the top prize at last month's Cannes Film Festival (to a comedy by another young American, Steven Soderbergh's sex, lies and videotape), jury member Sally Field told Lee she fought to get him a prize. The film's detractors called it facile and irresponsible; Lee responded by accusing his critics of racism...
...bill would issue vouchers to parents for use in day-care centers that offer religious instruction. To win the support of Republican Senators, ABC would create a tax credit for the costs of care and child health insurance, adding to the federal deficit as much as $10.3 billion in lost tax revenues in five years...