Word: snails
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gave a rationale for accepting a boost: new revenues, said Bush, are a necessary part of any compromise package to cut the budget deficit, and a lower deficit in turn is essential to bring down interest rates and get the economy moving at something better than its current snail's pace. "In the long run," he added, the flip-flop will not hurt his credibility "because what people are interested in are jobs, economic growth. People know this deficit is bad. People know that we are going to have to take some action." Some Republicans nonetheless grumbled that Bush...
...northern spotted owl has become to the timber industry what the tiny snail darter was to dam builders -- a symbol for environmentalists, only cuter. In the 1990s, the owl may curb logging in the Pacific Northwest just as the small fish temporarily halted construction of the Tellico Dam in Tennessee. Last week a panel of federal scientists called for a halt to logging on up to 40% of the national forest land in Oregon, Washington and California to keep the owl from becoming extinct. An estimated 1,700 pairs survive, a drop of more than half the population since...
...ragged quilt of vacant lots and small stores, bean fields and discount emporiums. Today the stretch is as alive as payday in a port city -- specifically, Saigon. Between 20,000 and 50,000 Vietnamese flock each weekend to 800 shops and restaurants, buying herbal medicine and dining out on snail-tomato-rice-noodle soup. In the mornings people may attend Buddhist ceremonies in makeshift temples; in the evenings they can applaud Elvis Phuong, who, complete with skintight pants and sneer, does Presley Vietnamese-style...
...Living in a snail's shell, being able to hide and defend what you considered worth living for: culture, tradition, family, Germany in a way. We were defending German soil. Had we left, there would have been a desert. A snail, sitting in its cozy shell, making itself as comfortable as possible, occasionally putting out its antennae to find out what life is like. But in our shells we always had time for others. People in our circle of friends became a little like Slavs, who in their long winters seem to have plenty of time to play chess, chat...
...wall. We should come out of our snail shells. Also, a lot of people are demoralized. They have overthrown the old system, but they see only ruins all around. Instead of rolling up their sleeves, they are waiting for help. They feel inferior. East Germans have been in an ambivalent situation for a long time. On the one hand, they were proud of having the best socialism compared with all those "untidy" Russians and Poles. They felt like students at the top of their class. They felt contempt for the rest of Eastern Europe. This was coupled with feelings...