Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...millions, technology is already allowing products to be tailored to each user. You can subscribe to news sources that serve up only topics and opinions that fit your fancy. Everything from shoes to steel can be customized to meet individual wishes. What does that mean for the modernist revolt against conformity that dominated art and literature? Postmodernism, with its sense of irony, is more amused by connections and historical hyperlinks...
...ideal that motivated his nation almost until the end? Would he have come to power if Germany were not going through endless economic crises, or if the winners in 1918 had not imposed on it conditions that represented a national humiliation against which the German patriotic fiber could only revolt...
...Hungarian revolt is crushed by Soviet troops...
When a company such as Reader's Digest performs so poorly for so long, shareholders usually revolt, forcing directors to make drastic changes. But in Digest's case, the board, which is supposed to be independent, is in the grip of the CEO. That would be George Grune, 68, who because of an unusual stock arrangement holds sway over enough voting shares to remove every Reader's Digest director. Grune's power source is his role as chairman of two charitable funds established by the company's childless founders, DeWitt and Lila Wallace, who died in 1981 and 1984, respectively...
...must be prepared for the possibility that Clinton's approval ratings will continue to hit Reagan-like plateaus. Further, by remaining silent, Republicans risk sacrificing their claim to leadership of the Moral Majority/family values wing of the party. The squandering of this opportunity could set-off a Bible-thumping revolt in the big tent...