Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Committee for the Olympic Games flubbed by offering bronze-medal remuneration -- $292,000 a year -- for a gold-medal job. Others are aghast that the honor of the position is apparently not incentive enough. Said salesman Charlie Perkiss: "They must start looking for someone who believes in the Olympic spirit...
...necessarily a bad thing: West Germany's population dwindled throughout the 1970s and '80s, which was a period of unparalleled prosperity. But that decline was a result of smaller families and falling birthrates, not depression and early death. Eastern Europe's illness is as much of the spirit as of the body. Politicians, not doctors, must cure...
...modern Disney cartoon feature is an adventure of the spirit -- a guided tour through eruptive emotions. The Little Mermaid plunged briskly into the growing pains of a creature that felt as isolated from the shimmering haut monde as any Afghan peasant or Harlem street kid. Beauty and the Beast took a stroll in the woods with a fellow who needed lessons in the civilizing power of love. The Aladdin carpet ride revealed a whole grownup world of pleasures and perils to a young thief who started out in search of only a quick spin with a pretty princess...
Workers who are not part of the underclass are feeling some of the same put- it-in-their-face spirit. Many who once thought they did not need a union to enjoy good pay and pleasant working conditions have changed their minds. Ruthless company-downsizing drives and continued layoffs, coupled with rising pay for top managers, have made their bosses look a good deal less benevolent. After Armco Steel announced a stock offering that included $45 million to be sold to key managers on generous terms, while leaving health and benefit plans unfunded to the tune of $1 billion, workers...
...Ultimately there is potential for abuse of any kind of rules if they don't follow them in the spirit in which they are intended," Porter says...