Word: ridden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ATTACK OF THE KILLER CHICKEN! Thorough cooking can save us from bacteria-ridden fowl. Arnold will play Colonel Sanders in the flick...
Last month, at the 15th Communist Party Congress, Jiang unveiled his boldest maneuver yet. The President proposed a radical privatization of many of the country's deficit-ridden state-owned enterprises, his first attempt at visionary change and one that runs a high risk of widespread social unrest. At the end of the Party Congress, Jiang announced the election of a new Politburo, China's top policymaking body, and that China's armed forces would be shrunk...
Worried about retirement? Don't be. Little Biff and Betsy are just a few years from college? No sweat. Vacation house? Go ahead. Heck, chuck all your financial concerns, including those about social time bombs like a deficit-ridden federal budget and the financial squeeze on Social Security. Omnipresent and omnipotent, the stock-market god will take care...
...essays reflect increasingly focused arguments concerning the validity of the placebo effect and its growing popularity in the realm of modern medicine. Among the topics pinpointed are the clinical bases of the placebo effect and the "nocebo phenomenon," in which the mere expectation of sickness may cause the angst-ridden patient to hurtle towards death. Even though the articles start to resemble entries in a medical journal, compelling statistics--such as the 12 percent increase in "normal" U.S. suicide patterns following Marilyn Monroe's suicide in 1962--snatch the reader's attention whenever the discussion of endogenous opioids approaches...
...Dramatically, these parties also serve as moments of intense action and change: Jack's 1980 New Year's party in particular is a crossroads after which none of the characters' lives remain the same. The carefree '70s have finished, and now these characters must face the sobering (if drug-ridden) '80s. What goes up must come down, and as usual, the fall is not nearly as much fun to watch as the rise...