Word: wave
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ordinary heat wave, Americans typically fume and fuss, grab relief where they can, and slog through the pestiferous weather with sweaty humor and prayers of gratitude to the great god A.C. This summer's record-busting hot spell, however, has aroused an extraordinary response. On top of the usual chafing at day after sticky day of hot, humid and hazy punishment has come a communal attack of the worries. Many Americans have found themselves concerned less about passing misery and more about the whole bruised and abused human habitat. Soggy, unremitting heat sometimes seemed a symptom of general ecological collapse...
...different. Baseball has become the sport of computerized Big Brother large-screen color televisions that tell fans when to cheer and whether the umpires muffed up the play at the plate. It has become the sport of artificial turf, covered roofs, ugly mascots, the ever-annoying Wave, gloves the size of California and huge beer...
...having overtaken the likes of Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse First Boston. Nomura controls investment or commercial banks in Britain, Australia, Switzerland, Singapore and Bahrain. In the U.S. it is a major dealer in Treasury issues and holds a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. In The Second Wave: Japan's Global Assault on Financial Services, Authors Richard W. Wright and Gunther A. Pauli put it this way: "Nomura stands alone as a giant among giants, a colossus whose stated goal is to be everything to everybody everywhere in the financial services business...
...poem is aimed at children with a profound and growing problem: for varying reasons, they have simply quit trying. Many students actually brag when they receive an F, as if it were a flag of proud defiance. Kids who wave it see no reason for caring how well they do. Life is pretty good right now, they conclude. Won't it always be this way? They seem immune to external motivation from parents or teachers. These children languish, blankly passing time behind their desks until a lure like drugs or gangs or other trouble leads them away...
During the past three months, however, Iran has suffered one military reversal after another. The turning point may have been its failure to seize the strategic southern port city of Basra during the winter offensive of 1986-87. Despite Iranian human-wave assaults, Iraqi defenders managed to hold on to it. Iran's confidence was further shaken by two Iraqi tactics early this year. One was extending the range of Iraq's Soviet-made Scud-B ground-to- ground missiles so they could reach Iranian cities. Between February and April, in the so-called war of the cities, Iraq launched...