Word: oriented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should he have gone to North Africa, a part of the world that Frenchmen in 1912 were still apt to generalize as "the Orient"? There were two basic reasons: cultural curiosity and the search for light...
...give its visitors such ominous advice? The surprising source is the New York Daily News, which bills itself as New York's Hometown Paper. The News has spent the past year preparing for the possibility of a multiunion strike by seeking "replacement workers" from around the U.S. To orient its out-of-town talent to life in the wilds of Manhattan, the News is preparing a guidebook that portrays a vision of the city dramatically at odds with the paper's public boosterism...
...this happened at a time when the American public was searching for a new cause around which to orient its political views. The end of the Cold War has left a gap in American political life that many think now is being filled by environmental activism...