Word: scaffolding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even the basic concept of an integrated Europe, which had turned former foes into domestic partners, might have eventually been forced to the scaffold. In that case, Western Europe would have rejoined its Eastern neighbors in revisiting the ugly past...
...looks as if yet another scaffold of prejudice is in the early stages of dismantlement, and that's likely in the long run to make America stronger and more competitive. If the best man for a particular job happens to be a woman -- or gay, or Catholic, or black -- why waste that talent? It's inefficient. A nation whose citizens respect and get along with one another has an advantage. Good for Harvard Business School...
...revolutionary year of 1989, the world grew accustomed to the spectacle of ruling Communists stepping onto the slippery slope of power sharing, with no more enthusiasm than a condemned man mounting a scaffold, but with no more resistance either. However, that was in Eastern Europe, not the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was different: it couldn't happen there...