Word: tunnelled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Japanese finance minister Kiichi Miyazawa called it "the light at the end of the tunnel": Japan?s GDP grew 1.9 percent in the first three months of 1999 after six straight quarters of contraction. The number was hailed by optimists as a sign that Japan?s moribund economy had finally bottomed out, and U.S. stocks dropped Thursday on the hint that a Japan-fueled recovery of the Asian tigers was on -? and that U.S. inflation (and a Fed rate hike) would soon follow...
...There was a certain incandescence in that period, that after the revolution never returned and became the tunnel-vision careerists we have now who ask during freshman registration, 'Which way to the pre-law tutor?" he says...
...There was a certain incandescence in thatperiod, that after the revolution never returnedand became the tunnel-vision careerists we havenow who ask during freshman registration, 'Whichway to the pre-law tutor?" he says...
Stupidity is one of my favorite subjects. "It is always amazing," Jean Cocteau wrote, "no matter how often one encounters it." Like sleep, stupidity is a universal, surreal and mysterious phenomenon, a brownout, the mind passing through a tunnel. Sometimes stupidity is hilarious; most of the world's jokes are told by one ethnic group about the stupidity of another ethnic group. In its sinister forms, stupidity turns up as evil's incompetent half brother--evil without supernatural prestige. The "Evil Empire" was, in a more practical sense, the stupid empire; systemic stupidity, not evil or good, brought the Soviet...
...really have to focus on your own boat and get tunnel vision," she said...