Word: scares
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...future course will hinge more on the economy's performance than the zeal of the newly seated fundamentalists. In 1991 inflation ran at a rate of 100%, and almost a quarter of the labor force is now out of work. Oil and gas revenues will decline if the fundamentalists scare off Algeria's European clients. Bendjedid recently implemented financial reforms aimed at wooing foreign funds. If democracy continues to flower, investment will be forthcoming, opening up new jobs and industries. But if daily life does not improve for the country's 26 million residents, Algerians may mistake fundamentalism...
...quintessential yuppie drama for the '80s had begun to grow a bit thin and self-indulgent as the new decade dawned. But with its end drawing near and character crises mounting -- a cancer scare, a sudden death -- the show revealed that it was made of sterner stuff. No network series has captured a milieu with such uncompromising fidelity. And Homefront is no substitute...
...quintessential yuppie drama for the '80s had begun to grow a bit thin and self-indulgent as the new decade dawned. But with its end drawing near and character crises mounting -- a cancer scare, a sudden death -- the show revealed that it was made of sterner stuff. No network series has captured a milieu with such uncompromising fidelity. And Homefront is no substitute...
...October, there were whoops as he lambasted the greedheads on Wall Street and the drug dealers of Mean Street, and again when he laced into George Bush for dividing the country by using the oldest tactic in the book: "You find the most economically insecure white people, and you scare the living daylights out of them." At a fund raiser for Illinois Democrats, he showed he can make the case that America is wasting much of its young generation. "It's a long, long way in this country from me at the age of six holding my great-granddaddy...
...that is any different? We don't get published, that's about all. We do, however, write for an audience. But it is supposed to be a general academic one. The fact that only one other person is really ever going to read most of our writing shouldn't scare us into trying to conform to their likes and dislikes...