Word: ridden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...contrast, many Black and Hispanic communities continue to suffer from low incomes crime-ridden neighborhoods, broken homes, and poorly funded schools. According to a 1990 Census Bureau report, the Black poverty rate stood at 31.9% and the Hispanic poverty rate at 28.1%; the white poverty rate was 10.7% in 1990. Also in 1990, three out of five Black families were maintained by single parents...
...generating, as we had thought. It may even be reversible. Famine and plague have returned to large parts of the world. Poverty is spilling over into the developed nations from the Third World. Desperate migrants pour into our cities, swelling the vast army of the homeless, unemployed, illiterate, drug-ridden, derelict and effectively disfranchised. Their presence strains existing resources to the limit. Medical and educational facilities, law- enforcement agencies and the supply of available jobs -- not to mention the supply of racial and ethnic goodwill, never abundant to begin with -- all appear inadequate to the enormous task of assimilating what...
...forget the flaws, or aren't such an anal movie critic, "Hero" well provide an evening of innocuously amusing entertainment. As Bernie LaPlante explains to a guilt-ridden John Bubber at the end of the film. It's just a matter of finding "the layer of bullshit" you're comfortable with...
Thirtysomething, ABC's trendsetting drama series, has been off the air for more than a year, but the show's angst-ridden spirit will be all over the dial this fall. In Love and War, a roughhewn Manhattan journalist (Jay Thomas) falls for a prickly, recently divorced restaurateur (Susan Dey). In Hearts Afire, two aides to a U.S. Senator (John Ritter and Markie Post) get together despite clashing political views. NBC's Mad About You focuses on neurotic newlyweds living in Manhattan, while ABC's Laurie Hill adds a five-year-old child to the trials of a busy...
Ingenious capital schemes were concocted to finance new projects. Socialized, centrally directed economies -- dressed up in ideological pretensions and encouraged by guilt-ridden sympathizers in the First World -- enabled Africa's traditional grafters to operate on an industrial scale...