Word: newfound
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with the death of Dottie's Aunt Harriet, who spends her last moments on earth at a bargain basement clearance sale, Dottie inherits the money to make a new life. With this newfound freedom, Dottie moves her family from Queens to Manhattan and is off in pursuit of her dream...
...about having to balance work and family. But another chorus of critics is offering its own interpretation, wrapped in a warning: that this movie is part of a decade-long attack against feminism intended to roll back the gains of the women's movement and convince women that their newfound liberation is the source of all their unhappiness. And therein lies the bigger story...
...government may have offered them a clue late last week. The Commerce Department reported that newfound strength in consumer spending helped the nation's gross domestic product grow at an annual rate of 0.8% in the final three months of 1991, more than twice as fast as earlier estimates. While that number is still not much to cheer about, it does offer some evidence that Americans might be shaking off those recession blues. And the recovery, if it happens at all, will be something less than a surge...
...leagues, styles began to blend. The international game, played on a rink that is as much as 30 ft. wider than an N.H.L. rink, rewards players who skate and pass well. Enter the Swedes, who are grace epitomized. But as Team Sweden swept effortlessly to early victories, they displayed newfound passion for knocking their opponents into the boards. Swedish coach Conny Evensson admitted that his N.H.L.-blooded veterans actually enjoy "body contact," but he quickly asserted that as skaters, "they are good to look...
...experienced an epiphany. I would act as nobly, as selflessly as my newfound idol. It was simple...