Word: vigorousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wheaton attributes a large measure of the team's vigor to off-season training and mental preparation. After last season's disappointing finish, team members have come into this year with solid goals of improvement and a gritty determination to see them through...
...union vigor is just barely beginning to show up in the numbers. Total membership in unions inched up by 200,000 in 1993, to 16.6 million, reversing 14 straight years of declines. The rise even matched the rate of increase in the total labor force, so that for once the proportion of all workers who are union members held steady at 15.8%. That was an extreme rarity; unions' share of the work force hit 35.5% as far back as 1945, stagnated around that level into the early 1960s, then fell year after year after year...
...beyond the thin veil of social science, there looms an ominous moral predicament. Harvard students are no longer leaders, but followers. At the time we graduate, we do not have the will to confront a tired and hardened world with our youthful vigor. We are non-confrontationalists, consensus builders. We want nothing more than to please the men and women who currently wield the real-world's power, whether they go by the name boss or parent. In short, there is a general spirit of conformist malaise about Cambridge these days...
...this young man pulled the trigger remains a mystery. It is true that under the neoliberal program furthered by President Salinas, the poor--a very sizeable part of the population--have experienced increasing hardship, even as the overall economic climate in the nation has regained vigor. The recent rebellion in Chiapas has brought attention to the fact that social justice must be addressed...
...would anticipate the later empire by collapsing into a feckless boozehound (the new style). Anyway, Rome's embrace -- like America's now -- had grown vast and "multicultural." The republic's old purity of spirit had dissolved. Diversity overwhelmed simplicity. Quite apart from multiculturalism, if the present teeters between past vigor and future decadence, Americans right now are at their Mark Antony stage of development...