Word: majority
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quick look at some of the features of our generation, what we've been able to offer to the world thus far. Contributions such as...uh...hmmm. There's so-called "alternative" rock, you know, music so edgy that you'll only find it on no fewer than four major radio stations at one time. Marcy Playground, please stand up and take a bow, then quickly return to your well-deserved obscurity...
...sorts of things he might never have seen were the Internet less far-reaching. Unfortunately, at the same time, the history and culture of many areas are being supplanted by the mass culture of cable TV and the Internet. Granted, culture from the Midwest is occasionally exported to the major markets...
...example of this is the Jerry Springer show, which has certainly found quite a following wherever it is shown while still retaining a distinctly rural, Midwestern feel. In general, however, it is the mass culture of our major cities that is exported via our speedy communications technology to all corners of the country. Kids in the interior of Alaska might now watch Beavis and Butthead rather than learn their native culture and history. Tragic? Yes, but also a by-product of a process I would be loathe to stop...
...muscular market and peaceable times, seemed invulnerable to redefinition no matter how lurid the rumors of his personal conduct. But that was a judgment made about a public man: Starr has now introduced his wanton private shadow, and asks us to reckon with both. There is Clinton, servicing a major donor on the phone as Monica lurks nearby. There he is plotting chance encounters in the hall so he and Monica could slip into the private study, while indirectly warning the men who guard him that indiscretion will cost them their jobs...
...when he legalized farmers' markets. As a result, China's agricultural sector is far more productive than Russia's. Diverse village and township enterprises have spread what is effectively private enterprise deep into the grass roots of the country, in a way not yet imagined outside Russia's major cities...