Word: rage
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...narrative -- especially in the distant fate foretold for the team in the novel's final paragraphs. Despite the deep optimism inherent in depicting their relationship, McClure ends in glints of gloom. He implies that no such bond can survive forever the fire storm of that nation's rage...
...Washington, the U.S. Justice Department adamantly disputed evidence that it had failed to follow through on reports from undercover agents that B.C.C.I. had engaged in corrupt banking practices. In London, British Prime Minister John Major, pale and rigid with rage, told Parliament he knew nothing of rampant fraud at B.C.C.I. until shortly before July 5, when regulators closed the $20 billion rogue bank in most of the 69 countries where it operated. In Peru the scandal breathed new life into charges that former President Alan Garcia Perez had used B.C.C.I. accounts to loot as much as $50 million from...
...Federal Government's latest tables for "healthy" weights, issued last year, provide more leeway than earlier charts. The new standards allow for a range of 30 lbs. or more at each height and up to a 16-lb. gain after age 35. Meanwhile the American rage for dieting has diminished...
...sell-out. N.W.A. got to the No. 1 spot by bearing down just as hard as it always has: its first album, Straight Outta Compton, which has sold 2 million copies, contained an off-the-cops cut called F--- the Police that catered to the resentment and rage of anyone, white or black, who ever looked down the barrel of a police special...
...time and taxpayers' money, and dull their own crime-fighting reflexes. The endless ululations of alarms in big cities fray people's nerves, inure them to noise and, on a deeper level, undermine their civic morale, their subliminal expectations. Crime, no crime -- the distinction vanishes in undifferentiated wailing and rage. The machine screams. The quality of life within earshot dies a little more...