Word: wave
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...certainty and solace in the face of a horrible riddle. And faced with the same endless series of senseless bloodlettings, even more secular precincts of America have been giving such claims a respectful hearing. After the shootings a moist-eyed George W. Bush said, "There seems to be a wave of evil passing through America." Today show's Katie Couric, interviewing Wedgwood's pastor, Al Meredith, listened as he offered the standard explanation for the crime: the killer was "deranged and deluded." Then, almost hesitantly, the pastor noted, "There's some possible theological, religious reasons you may not be interested...
There was something oddly charming about the geeks who made up the first wave of Internet entrepreneurs. Social misfits pounding out code in their computer-science labs--these people deserved professional success. But after the Wright Brothers, you get Frank Lorenzo. And so this summer Silicon Valley was flooded by the Second Wave: fast-talking business-school grads whose interest in technology is limited to how it will make them money. This is Silicon Valley in the IPO age. Geeks are history; they're all capitalists now. Netscape founder Marc Andreesen stars in a Miller Lite...
...Backstreet Boys re-emerge from the bottom of the stage to deliver their smash-hit single "I Want It That Way," giving themselves completely to the audience. Screaming with hysteria I looked up to see Kevin was standing right above me. I couldn't help but to wave and furiously proclaim my undying devotion. And then it happened--he looked at me. At me! (I wanted to make a last ditch run to the bathroom to check my hair and makeup....) If he hadn't been in the middle of his song, I'm pretty sure he would have proposed...
...department's inception represented a major coup for student activists, whose reforms rode a wave of enthusiasm for change that transformed much of the University...
...neighborhood caught in a crime wave, the anger toward the police commissioner apparent at the meeting is no surprise...