Word: slide
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...must decide for themselves what to do with their traditions. Showing respect for the wisdom keepers can help the young of various tribes better weigh the value of their culture against blandishments of modernity. If young apprentices begin to step forward, the world might see a slowing of the slide toward oblivion...
Today George Bush worries less about whether the U.S.S.R. will start World War III than whether it will slide into a civil war. Even the word superpower now has an odd ring when applied to the demoralized, disintegrating state that Mikhail Gorbachev leads. Bush is the first American President to spend most of his term more concerned about the Soviet Union's weaknesses than its strengths...
...expensive, but there is a growing "garage video" movement whose members buy much of their equipment at discount stores. For example, a skateboard makes a fine dolly for videotaping toddlers and tricyclers. Ordinary quartz outdoor lights, perched on two-by-fours, provide good background lighting, while an old slide projector makes an excellent spotlight. Inexpensive security cameras can be used to help shoot scenes requiring two or three angles. For long-shots, a baby monitor makes a perfectly adequate wireless mike...
...chunk! Ka-chunk! Every day more than 200 million credit cards slide in and out of charge machines across the U.S. Ka-chunk! Americans used plastic to charge $480 billion last year, at a rate of about $1 million a minute. The typical American charge customer carries nine cards and owes more than $2,000 on them. Despite interest rates averaging close to 19%, many cardholders are blase about paying hundreds of dollars a year in interest, plus an annual fee for the privilege of doing...
...That slide may finally be over. Congress has boosted the agency's budget by $150 million in the past two years, to $682 million for 1991, and the number of staff positions is up again to about 8,400. With that backing, Kessler hopes to strengthen the FDA in all areas. By picking on big food companies sensitive to publicity, he has made an astute start at establishing himself -- and re-establishing the FDA -- as the nation's top health...