Word: vacuumized
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...interdependence," he judges, "there is a chance of things getting worse." Or as Washington analyst Frank Gaffney puts it, "The fundamental laws of international politics have not been altered by the end of the cold war. You could say they've been exacerbated, because power, like nature, abhors a vacuum." Bush celebrated the death of communism by proclaiming a new world order. He was right about the new world, but so far there is precious little order...
...again. Others, like New York's Stephen Solarz, found the ground shifting beneath their feet as redistricting removed their old constituencies. One way or another, an empty space opened up, and that great sucking sound, as Ross Perot might have put it, was women rushing in to fill the vacuum...
...millennium is almost by definition a moment of extreme possibilities, arousing fantasies that veer wildly between earthly paradise and annihilation. "The human mind abhors a vacuum," says Michael Barkun, a political ; scientist at the University of Syracuse. "Where certainties are absent, we make do with probabilities, and where probabilities are beyond our power to calculate, we seek refuge from insupportable ignorance in a future of our own imagining...
Thus the U.S. becomes a more risky place for investment, and the government must keep long-term interest rates artificially high to attract foreign money. In addition, private savings from Americans are sucked up by the debt vacuum, which means that businesses have a smaller investment pool from which to borrow...
Yesterday Western Europe was united in order to confront a Soviet bloc, artificially brought together by the Red Army. Today Western Europe has to be united to face the vacuum left by the disappearance of the Soviet Union and the powerful forces of fragmentation that the collapse of the Soviet empire unleashed...