Word: sprung
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...help of government subsidies and benefits, below the poverty line. Homelessness, derided by the communists as a plague of the West, is becoming commonplace. The old Soviet guarantees of work, housing and low fixed prices are gone, and the welfare net, designed to catch the rare social dropout, has sprung gaping holes...
...realize it was my fault that I didn't seek her out sooner. But shouldn't the concentration have required a meeting to ensure that I knew the rules, and not juist have sprung them on me at the last minute...
...death throes of large stars. Working with mathematician Roger Penrose and using Einstein's relativity equations, he developed new techniques proving mathematically that at the heart of black holes were singularities -- infinitely dense, dimensionless points with irresistible gravity. He went on to demonstrate that the entire universe could have sprung from a singularity and, in his 1966 Ph.D. thesis, wryly noted that "there is a singularity in our past...
...Americans grew up with the ethereal smell of bubble-gum-bathed baseball cards. Lying side by side in such close quarters, the cards reeked of the gum (and couldn't have tasted much worse). Every winter, kids desperately awaited this unmistakable odor as a sure sign that spring had sprung, that baseball diamonds were green once again, that God was in heaven and all was right with the world...
Congress added the Chapter 11 provision to the federal bankruptcy code in 1978 so companies could stay in business while working out repayment plans. But a national debate has now sprung up over whether the country would be better off if sick firms were allowed to die. Last year nearly 21,000 firms filed Chapter 11 petitions, the most since 1986. More significant, many of the new cases are mammoth, involving such familiar names as Macy's, TWA and Orion Pictures. While few large companies entered Chapter 11 before the mid-1980s, more than a dozen with assets exceeding...