Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Later that afternoon at Dartmouth's Memorial Field, the Big Green football team was a mean, lean fighting machine. The defending Ivy champion Crimson committed six turnovers and fell, 38-7. Harvard's chances of finshing on top of the Ivy standings for the second year in a row were slim even before the game began...
...plenty followed by seven lean years of want. With the U.S. economy in the seventh year of a record peacetime expansion, signs are multiplying that for many Americans the fat times are coming to an end. In their place, economists prophesy everything from a soft landing, which could mean weak growth but little pain, to the ominous prospect of a deep recession. Few seers doubt, however, that a slowdown is at hand. "This has been a long expansion," says Allen Sinai, chief economist of the Boston Company Economic Advisors, a leading consulting firm. "But the spring...
...this has got to be the least read of all the books I'd written because it is about something that the characters don't want to remember, I don't want to remember, black people don't want to remember, white people don't want to remember. I mean, it's national amnesia...
...They don't care about these kids. I don't mean that there are not people ; who care. But when this wonderful "they" we always blame for anything say we've got to fix the schools, or we have got to legalize drugs, what they care about is their personal well-being: Am I going to get mugged? Are the homeless going to be in my neighborhood...
...Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich get it handed -- they inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network. That's shared bounty of class...