Word: phrase
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...knock northern sports, but to put it in a phrase I used many times this fall, "There just ain't nothin' like a Friday night or Saturday afternoon in Georgia...
...more liberal on some issues than the Speaker, while Gilder may be even more conservative -- the two writers have much in common. Both are former journalists who hit it big with big-think books. In Toffler's case it was Future Shock (1970), which contributed its title phrase to the language and turned its author into a much sought-after consultant-prophet; Gilder's Wealth and Poverty (1981), a ringing endorsement of capitalism and supply-side economics, became a sacred text for members of the first Reagan Administration. Both have eagerly tackled subjects in which they possess no formal training...
...cosmic assumptions of his own seeing them in your blue book, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of seeing St. Augustine flattened by a phrase or a phrase or reading about the "Xian myth...
...varied Russian Federation. That could plunge the vast area stretching from the Arctic Ocean south to the Black Sea and from the Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad clear across Eurasia to the North Pacific into chaos or civil war. At the most extreme, some Western analysts are whispering again a phrase last heard in 1991, when the Soviet Union was breaking up: "Yugoslavia with nukes...
...March family is Santa Clueless. They are transcendentalists, so there are no angels in their outfieldmaybe just Ralph Waldo Emerson out for his evening stroll. They are the creation of a 19th century New England lady who never heard the phrase "family entertainment" but in her innocence imagined that by telling the story of one family going about the ordinary business of life, she could divert and instruct other families...