Word: morass
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...late 1950s June Cleaver dreamworld of the pedestrian shopping zone has been steadily turning into a nightmare. With the recent departure of the genteel Cambridge Shop (for Ladies) and the Crimson Shop (for Gentlemen), one can imagine the upper echelons of Harvard Real Estate peering down into the morass of the Square and wringing their hands in dismay...
...rousing anthems and raw energy of their early albums ("Pride," "Sunday, Bloody Sunday"), the spiritual ballads of "The Joshua Tree" and the dance rhythms of their 1991 LP, "Achtung Baby." "Zooropa" is the raw emotional waste of the new cyberpunk world of the '90s--humans lost in the mechanical morass of technology...
...Epps' expansive management style has sometimes led him to tread on the tender egos of his colleagues-turned-subordinates in the morass of race relations committees, officials and organizations at the College...
Jaeger says the University's system of overseeing its personnel has broken down into an inefficient, bureaucratic morass that leaves supervision of workers to the whims of individual managers...
Today that committee's proposals are held up by a morass of regulations on age discrimination, so such ideas as payments for retiring professors and five-year "senior professorships" to ease faculty members into emeritus status are waiting on the welter of legal complications...