Word: rotting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What the situation calls for is a new type of disaster, a "three dimensional invention unheard of before." Unless Wheeler can find "something unearthly" to include as a disaster in the film he is supposedly making, he'll surely rot--in wonderful shades of green, yellow and red--into nothingness right before our eyes...
...Thatcher era. She has created, say both the left and the traditional right, a vulgar, selfish, money-obsessed society, drained of more humane values. Her prosperity has been selective; the gap between haves and have-nots has increased. She has ignored the environment, allowed the public infrastructure to rot, starved the universities and other worthy institutions and causes that depend on public funds. For all her talk of freedom, she is an authoritarian outside the economic sphere and has shown contempt for civil liberties. The Thatcher boom itself, say some, is a mirage, and they offer statistics to back themselves...
...believe in supply-side drug management, but it has not worked and never will until the rot of America's inner cities is stopped. The drug war must be coupled with a war on poverty...
...Nunn last week. "It was a scheme to make some extra cash" -- a plan too clever by half. Even then, Nunn prepared his moves carefully, cautiously. A cooling-off period was decreed. The eggs were stashed in the attic of Sam's home. "But I never realized they'd rot," said Nunn. "It was theft without profit...
...will turn themselves over to the mujahedin shortly after the last Soviets pull out. But according to one scenario making the rounds in Washington, the rebels will not need to manipulate the economic and military noose for very long. The ruling party, these analysts conclude, will hang itself. "The rot within the ((ruling party)) is already pronounced," says a State Department official. "It will only get worse after the Soviets are gone." According to U.S. officials, contingency plans are already in place for the evacuation of Najibullah and as many as 5,000 members of his party to Moscow...