Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...witnessing the dreaded "Sad Macintosh...
...have to admit I felt a little sad when I stepped out, looked back and saw an empty shell," says Moore, speaking from his new shop...
...worry about that, but it does sadden me. The whole thing is a mess. Sad, that's what it is. Forget the Supreme Court or anything else...
...media are culpable as well, for sensationalized coverage that has often served to glamourize the menace they are decrying. Then there are the social-policy conservatives who purport to see no connection between the flagrant neglect of the economic problems of the underclass and the current crack epidemic. And sad to say, well-intentioned parents can also contribute to the hysteria by viewing drugs as the sole cause of their children's problems, rather than as a symptom of family-wide crisis...
Fukuyama has no illusions that the end of history represents the beginning of secular paradise. In fact, he sees it as a "sad time," when ideological struggles that called for "daring, courage, imagination" will be replaced by the "endless solving of technical problems." He worries about the cultural banality that pervades liberal societies obsessed with consumerism, and notes that nationalism and religious fundamentalism continue to appeal to many Third World peoples. While it is impossible to rule out the emergence of new ideologies, or indeed of entirely new political systems, Fukuyama argues that for the foreseeable future it will become...