Word: pent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Having swallowed this view of our generation whole, Newsweek and its ilk are constantly on the lookout for further signs of our generation's decline. Surely, the pent-up frustrations of these angry young people cannot last forever as harmless apathy. Some day, something's going to snap...
...effect is that an increasingly pent-up river rises higher, moves faster downstream, and is more prone to back up like a clogged drain, increasing the pressure on unfortified areas. "The water has to go somewhere," says aquatic ecologist Richard Sparks of the Illinois Natural History Survey, "and if we don't allow it to spread out, the only direction...
What has chiefly brought Americans back to the showrooms is a pent-up demand for new cars. Many consumers who had been waiting for the recovery to pick up steam before replacing their autos now find they can't wait anymore. A record 71% of 10-year-old cars are still chugging along U.S. roads and highways, up from 59% a decade ago. "The bottom-of-the-food-chain cars and trucks are wearing out," says Chrysler president Robert Lutz. "The market is being driven by replacement demand more than by the growth of new buyers." William Pochiluk, president...
...lands and evicting wildlife. For years, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission paid little or no attention to environmental issues as it relicensed dams. Now it is faced with a record number of relicensing applications -- 230 dams on 59 river basins -- and is using this unique opportunity to respond to pent-up ecological concerns, particularly the needs of fish. Many of the dams up for relicensing will be required to take costly steps to help fish reach their spawning grounds and then return. That could mean ladders, lifts, pathways or "trap-and-truck" measures, in which truckloads of fish are ferried...
...this year, they assert, was unique, because ordinary workers stood up to their bosses and took long- term, pent- up grievances public...