Word: tidal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...size of XF11 colliding with Earth at more than 38,000 m.p.h. would explode with the energy of 300,000 megatons--nearly 20 million times the force of the bomb that leveled Hiroshima. If it hit in the ocean, he predicted, it would cause a tsunami (commonly called a tidal wave) hundreds of feet high, flooding the coastlines of surrounding continents. "Where cities stood," he said, "there would be only mudflats." A land hit, he calculated, would blast out a crater at least 30 miles across and throw up a blanket of dust and vapor that would blot...
...Korea, Japan and other Asian economies have plunged deeper into crisis in recent months, fears have spread of the doomsday scenario: Would the Asians begin to sell tens, perhaps hundreds, of billions of dollars in U.S. government securities to pay off their mounting debts? A tidal wave of selling would knock down the price of Treasuries, driving up interest rates and edging the American economy toward recession. In the ensuing panic, stock prices could be hammered, prompting a market crash...
...nature, great powers of observation and expression, and scientific exactitude--until finally a style that had previously been dismissed by editors as too poetic became celebrated as just poetic enough. When success finally arrived, with the publication of The Sea Around Us in 1951, it came as a tidal wave. Each of her four books became a best seller, and she won virtually every prestigious literary award, including election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters...
Several major currents have been rushing together to turn the aging of America into a demographic and marketing tidal wave. A child born today can expect to live to age 76 on average--up from just 47 in 1900. And people who are now 65 have the prospect, on average, of 17 more years ahead of them. No age group has been growing faster than men and women 85 or older, whose numbers have nearly tripled to 4 million since...
...week in history in which someone of Mother Teresa's caliber could have died and not end up as the lead story on the evening news (which would have suited the self-denying saint of Calcutta just fine). Once it was announced, the news from Paris loomed like a tidal wave that seemed to dwarf the rest of the world. All of a sudden nobody cared about Mir or Miami, the Olympics or E.coli; the People's Princess was from our hearts untimely ripped, and that...