Word: neos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Choose someone dressed in neo-hippie Clothing--cut-offs, flannels and beads. Inspect the person's feet, and you'll find out why people seem taller these days...
There are those, to be sure, who think nothing at all needs to be done about the deficit. Certain neo-Keynesian and supply-side economists have, willy- nilly, joined forces in an attempt to persuade Americans that the deficit doesn't matter all that much and may even be useful. Some of them think that a mere $200 billion in federal red ink has only a negligible negative effect on an expanding $4.9 trillion economy. Others argue that much of the deficit has positive, pump-priming effects and promotes growth and higher levels of employment. As Robert Eisner, an economist...
...larger ethnic scheme designed to denigrate Afro-American and keep them as the focus of negative attention for the American majority." The scheme is led by "Euro-American individuals and special interest groups with powerful influence in the media." We never hear slurs directed at "any other target of neo-Nazi hatred," Counter wrote...
...uncomplicated hubris. Its last full flowering was a generation ago, when the four full-fledged world's fairs of the postwar era took place back to back, almost continuously: 1958 in Brussels, 1964-65 in New York City, 1967 in Montreal and 1970 in Osaka. And then, in the neo-Luddite, small-is-beautiful era since, we have had nothing -- or nothing but piddling, second-and third-rank expositions that reflected (and self-fulfillingly confirmed) the tapped-out, lowered-expectations zeitgeist...
...week before the forms were due witnessed massive debates over North and Mather--pitting those who never leave home without frequent flyer mileage cards against those with a taste for neo-penitentiary architecture...