Word: record
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most of the country, these are bleak times for the American left. After seven years of a Democratic president's triangulation, many liberals feel sold out even in their own party. College students, among the most energetic fighters for radical causes in days past, have tuned out politics in record numbers...
...Democratic freshmen had an average of $74,000 in the bank at the end of their first six months of fund-raising; now that number is $206,000. Republican freshmen, likewise, had banked an average of $109,000; this year, it?s $203,000. "We're raising record numbers, they're raising record numbers," said Rep. Thomas M. Davis III (R-Va.), who heads the House Republicans? campaign arm. "It's Armageddon...
...thus more people can pay down debt. Annual interest income has grown from $52 billion in '96 to $58 billion last year, while charges have risen twice as fast, from $798 billion to $975 billion. In March consumers repaid some 15% of their outstanding balances, a 10-year record, according to Moody's Investors Service. "Since they can't get it at the front end, they get it at the back end," says Robert McKinley, CEO of CardWeb.com "It's a fee frenzy, and a backlash may be brewing...
...Ferrer was plucked off a Havana street by California guitarist Ry Cooder, who invited him to sing on a new album he was producing, Buena Vista Social Club. That record became a surprise hit in America, in no small part because of Ferrer's expert work, and led to this, his solo debut. "The Cuban Nat King Cole," as Cooder calls him, now savors a sweet, unexpected stardom. Says he: "I've been able to fix up my house a little." Ferrer is 72, and his voice lacks the strength it once had, but its power is undiminished...
...other hard-core rap groups, writes songs about urban violence, street bravado, felonious gunplay, "baby fathers" and friends slain young. The music beneath Mobb Deep's lyrics, however, is oddly restful. The contrast between the jagged lyrics and the smooth rhythms that propel them gives the group's new record a thoughtful quality and a hard-to-resist listenability. One feels immersed and insulated...