Word: wastelands
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...when he was in the final months of John Kennedy's unfinished term, Lady Bird wrote, "Beloved, you are as brave a man as Harry Truman--or FDR--or Lincoln...To step out now would be wrong for your country, and I can see nothing but a lonely wasteland for your future...
...some point or another, everyone thinks about taking a baseball bat to the radio. There's nothing on the air, goes the traditional gripe, aside from the latest flavor of mainstream pop, hard rock and hip-hop. It's a sterile teenage wasteland spanning the dial, disrupted only by the odd college station...
...glum hesitation - the defining feature of this post-apocalyptic wasteland known as summer 2001 - is back in fashion and most of the big money remains on the sidelines, the season's last week will be a test of will for the few unfortunates in there slinging...
...slow trudge through this post-apocalyptic economic wasteland continues. Not that?s it?s so, so horrible for anyone not on an assembly line - unemployment is still at 4.5 percent, consumer spending is still visible, and most of us ordinary schlubs didn?t have much money in the markets anyway - but it?s no picnic for those whose eyes are peeled for the growth at the end of the desert. Visibility is short, and the way seems ever so long...
...scoreboard and anticipate the day (coming soon) when Internet data ports at their seats will keep them wired even when the action below does not. Chances are no one will be giving a second thought to the toxic mess that was here just four years ago--an industrial wasteland of asbestos and lead, arsenic and benzene and the carcinogenic remains of a 19th century crematory...