Word: preferments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Japanese outgrows blue jeans. American books, both pop and profound, can at times sell more in Japanese translation than back home in English. News is often seen through an American prism. Trends and movements sweep across the Pacific from America and take root. In Japan these days many people prefer whale watching to whale eating: environmentalism has arrived...
...been smooth, colloquial and graced with a touch of self-deprecating humor. He has raised more money (close to $4 million) than any of his rivals, and on grounds of electability has won the sympathetic interest, if not outright backing, of teacher groups and labor unions that might ordinarily prefer a more liberal candidate...
...esteem, usually takes a nose dive at puberty. Unless nature has selected for smart girls and dumb women, something is going very wrong at about the middle-school level. Part of the problem may be that males, having been the dominant sex for a few millenniums, still tend to prefer females who make them feel stronger and smarter. Any girl who is bright enough to solve a quadratic equation is smart enough to bat her eyelashes and pretend that...
Some business leaders prefer to characterize the relationship between city and suburbs as "symbiotic." The city provides services, says James Wallace, president of the Chamber of Commerce of Southern New Jersey, and the suburbs provide the tax base: "Each without the other simply could not get along." But the argument that this is a fair trade is offensive to the people of south Camden whose neighborhood reeks of human excrement. Every year these residents, the majority of whom are poor, must pony up $275 for sewage treatment -- the same amount that rich suburbanites pay in communities with names like Tavistock...
...that good fortune dulls their sense of social responsibility. When they hire a handyman, he is (as they might prefer to put it) "differently abled" -- a sweet-souled retardate named Solomon (Ernie Hudson, in a nicely judged performance). When in the course of a prenatal examination Claire is sexually abused by a gynecologist, she comes to feel, after suitable soul searching, that she has no choice but to bring charges against the doctor in order to save others from her experience...