Word: transients
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...find the environment far more exciting to the future than politics. Politics is shockingly transient. The issues that we are so concerned with today are nearly forgotten in three weeks. Environmental issues are not going to be a moot point ten years from now. They are getting more acute. Discovering how to make them funny is a distinct and irresistible challenge...
...randomization is not a transient issue...
...relocation angered residents of the Tenderloin district, where hundreds of elderly and impoverished people were evicted from damaged transient hotels after Tuesday's devastating 6.9-magnitude quake...
...earth, the flare's effects were equally disruptive. Shortwave transmissions were interrupted, some for as long as 24 hours, and satellite communication and a Coast Guard loran navigation system were temporarily overwhelmed. Powerful transient magnetic fields, generated in the upper atmosphere by the flare, induced electrical currents in transmission lines and wiring, and mystified homeowners reported automatic garage doors opening and closing on their own. A surge of flare-induced current was blamed by Hydro- Quebec officials for shutting down the power company's system and blacking out parts of Montreal and the province of Quebec for as long...
...Korsakoffian, moreover, has trouble functioning. He is always getting things wrong. As modern industrial culture becomes more visual, its images more transient, it has a hard time learning. It too is constantly surprised. Take the shock with which news of the Chinese crackdown on the democracy movement was received. Given Communism's 70-year history, marked by repeated reigns of repressive terror, only a forgetting culture could have been so taken by surprise. The week after the Tiananmen massacre, Hungary, which has a harder time forgetting, staged a moving reburial of the men executed for leading the 1956 rebellion...