Word: majority
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hadn't realized how bad it is. An air of gloom hung over the whole city--all the malls were empty, the shops filled with "Going Out of Business" signs and the headline news everyday was either of another jump in the unemployment rate or of yet another major company closing down. The suicide rate has gone up; there was an unemployment-related one just a few days...
Small businesses were of course hard-hit, but big firms, like Cathay Pacific Airways, also suffered huge losses. Tourism, a major source of revenue, dropped to terrifyingly low levels, and confidence in the government plummeted. This was the first year that the locals had run their own government, so Hong Kong residents began to think that, maybe--just maybe--their own people simply weren't as qualified for the job as they had anticipated...
...indeed very fortunate. Just look at the Career Forum here this past weekend. All these big-name companies recruiting right on our own campus, passing out free stuff to get us interested, holding information sessions and spending major money in full-page newspaper recruitment...
Natalie A. McCullough, a first-year MBA candidate, was a geology major at Stanford who did environmental consulting for three years and then led bike trips for a year-and-a-half before applying to Harvard...
...land are a growing majority, and that's posing a major health hazard. More than half the U.S. population is overweight, with nearly one third clinically obese -- a condition that kills 300,000 each year, the American Dietetic Association was told Monday. Most alarming is the rate of obesity among the nation's children, which has quadrupled to 20 percent over the past 30 years. The reasons? "TV wasn't as ubiquitous then as it is now," says TIME medical correspondent Christine Gorman. "Kids are a lot less active now than they were 30 years...