Word: mined
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...terminated what became the prolonged adolescence of the baby boomers. The grownups in charge in the '60s lost control of American society. The moral center of gravity shifted from middle-aged authority to youthful impulse. So did the commercial center of gravity: the boomers were a gold mine. Now we live in an enduring vacuum of grownups, taken from us in the way that blight obliterated the American...
...really excited about it," Hill said. "How many guys can say that they've been a professional basketball player? It's been a lifetime goal of mine...
...really excited about it," Hill said. "How many guys can say that they've been a professional basketball player? It's been a lifetime goal of mine...
Earlier that same night, some friends of mine decided not to go to the Senior Bar event at the Kong, offering familiar refrains of "I don't know anyone who is going," and "It's not like I'm going to meet anyone new there." At the time I called my friends wimps, but I knew that it could have just as easily been me offering the same excuses to mask my apprehension. Approaching graduation and moving to a new city, I wonder if I will make those same kinds of excuses in turning down new opportunities...
Moreover, everything in life that is dangerous, risky or bad disproportionately affects the poor: slum housing, street crime, small cars, hazardous jobs. By this logic, coal mining should be outlawed because the misery and risk and diseases of coal mining disproportionately fall on people who need the money. The sons of investment bankers do not go to West Virginia to mine. (They go there to run for the Senate...