Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...forestall a second-wave tragedy of infectious disease. Survivors, many of them at first unwilling to budge from outside their fallen homes, hoping to salvage something--if not a loved one, perhaps some hoarded savings--are drifting into tent cities. Amid the uncertainty, both the leaders and the governed seem clear on one thing: the Turkey that emerges from this detritus must not be the same place that crumbled...
Three presidential candidates--McCain and Democrats Al Gore and Bill Bradley--have staked out high-profile positions in favor of reform. Yet even they admit that while voters claim to be revolted by the system, reforming it does not seem to be at the top of their to-do list. "Voters have developed such low expectations of politicians that they don't think anybody is credible on campaign reform," Bradley told TIME. "It's kind of the ultimate triumph of interest-group politics that we've reached the point where people say it won't even work...
...omnipresent cold war threat of mutually assured destruction. "I just don't think extreme sports would have been popular in a ground-war era," says Dan Cady, professor of popular culture at California State University at Fullerton. "Coming back from a war and getting onto a skateboard would not seem so extreme...
...real" job. Or at least an indoor job, as in the case of Republican Roberto Marsili, a stone mason who boasts of an eighth-grade diploma. Democrat A. Robert Kaufman, an intelligent, balding man whose socialist solutions prompted an opponent to call him Lenin, campaigns nonstop and doesn't seem to have a paycheck to miss. The Rev. Jessica Davis, who refers to herself in the third person as either "Jessica Davis" or "the next mayor of Baltimore," says "international travel" has given her the background to govern the city. Wonder where, exactly, she has been...
...should also get on the record that the non-stock-optioned young people I know seem to be showing no signs of suffering mightily from the new disease that I've been reading about--"millionaire angst," a condition that can apparently disable an otherwise healthy and prosperous 28-year-old who, while stripping paint from what ought to be a perfectly adequate starter house, can't keep himself from dwelling on the fact that a contemporary of his in Silicon Valley is starting with a house that costs $9 million...