Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...baby millionaires and their legions of wannabes has given way to a new age of moderation and caution. Dynasty, meet Roseanne. In its June survey, the Conference Board, which every month measures consumer confidence across the U.S., found people more worried than at any time since 1987. The economic shock therapy that began with the Crash of '87 and continues with the $500 billion savings and loan debacle has given Americans a new appreciation of limits...
...certainly doesn't make the Massachusetts environment conducive to bringing businesses in," said Tod Beaty, president of the Harvard Square Business Association. "It's going to be a shock for any company that didn't have to charge its customers before...
...plane did and at less cost. But was the real reason that an even faster snooper is being developed in the Nevada desert? The 1986 defense budget contained a mysterious reference to the "Aurora" project. Now a prototype of the aircraft is reported to be rocking the desert with shock waves during test flights. Rumors say the Lockheed plane may be unmanned and can fly at speeds greater than Mach 6 (4,100 m.p.h.) -- fast enough to cross the Pacific in less than two hours. Neither the Air Force nor Lockheed will confirm its existence...
...accused: Imelda Marcos, widow of the exiled Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, charged with helping him loot $220 million from their country's treasury. Three times she brought the trial to a halt by swooning, once coughing up blood to the shock of the courtroom...
After handily defeating celebrity novelist Mario Vargas Llosa in last week's presidential runoff, Alberto Fujimori made it clear that he has no intention of administering strong medicine to Peru's exhausted economy. The bespectacled former university professor reaffirmed his campaign promise that he would avoid "shock" therapy that might hurt the poor...