Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...real promise of all this change is that it will enrich all of us, not just a bunch of kids in Silicon Valley. With online price comparisons, automatic grocery shopping and the ability to get whatever we want whenever we want it, 21st century Americans will face a radical reshaping of the consumer culture we've been building since the 1950s. Think, for a second, about the revolution that shopping malls created in the 1970s and 1980s. They defined not only how we bought stuff but also how we spent our time. The malls themselves became essential parts...
...airmen's lawyers face a tough challenge: "Their early line of defense, with witnesses describing the optical illusion caused by a flying through a valley, has been pretty weak," says Thompson. "These guys were flying way below the legal limit in an area where they shouldn't have been flying, and they killed 20 people...
...Charles who led his son through the valley of the shadow of death, after Laudor recovered from his schizophrenic breakdowns to try to live in the real world. "The monkeys are eating my brain," Michael had screamed on the day he was accepted to Yale Law School, the New York Post reported. But when he considered taking a job as a salesclerk at Macy's incredibly busy store in New York City, his father immediately saw the dangers. Go to law school instead, his father advised him. The law school, Laudor told the New York Times in 1995, turned...
...hilltop near the town gives a full view of the Sandouping construction site for the new dam. Looking down on the empty expanse between the mountains on either side, one can hardly conceive of a mass of concrete 600 ft. high, stretching 1 1/4 miles across the river valley, to be finished by 2003. Nor is it easy to picture the 360-mile-long reservoir that will back up behind the planned dam, flooding more than 150,000 acres of land and forcing 1.3 million people to relocate to higher ground. The cranes on the site are hundreds of feet...
...mountains. The lead female character, a woman strong enough to ski for miles carrying a grown man on her back, could be the daughter of a yeti-like succubus in his story The Myths of Bears. And the novel's wilderness setting is very like the author's home valley in northern Montana, glorified in The Book of Yaak...