Word: wave
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...done, what the private sector has done. It's good fortune. It's all this coming together... Economic historians 25 or 30 years from now will identify factors you can't see from where we're sitting." Those same historians will also be arguing whether Rubin merely rode the wave or whether his hand was on the rudder. But one thing is certain: They won't be giving the credit to Lloyd Bentsen...
...possible to indicate orders of magnitude. Currently there are a bit more than three taxpaying workers supporting one retiree. By the 2030s, when the tidal wave of baby-boomer retirements crests, there will be only two. Somewhere around 2014, the system is expected to be paying out more in benefits than it collects in taxes, forcing Social Security to start cashing in the Treasury bonds in its trust fund, whose assets are now more than $760 billion. By 2034, that too will be gone, and taxes will cover only an estimated 71% of annual pensions...
...Isaiah Shoels, a slain 18-year-old, made a call to attorney Geoffrey Fieger, famous for defending Jack Kevorkian, about representing his family. No suits have been filed yet, and Colorado bars lawyers from soliciting clients for 30 days after an incident. But it is probable that a wave of lawsuits is coming from the victims' families and from those injured in the shootings. What is less certain is what good they will...
...field of quantum physics. Is light a wave or a particle? What precisely is dark matter? Can we really be sure that the universe is expanding? Could we intentionally open a worm hole? For years socially maladjusted, brilliant men and women have been furiously debating questions like these. The academic community has been wracked with strife for long enough. Jackson should read "A Brief History of Time," think about it for a few hours and pronounce the answers to these questions once...
...farewell to the boy reporter as he steams away on an ocean liner, boards an airplane or blasts off into the night sky in his rocket ship. An old man and his courageous son, recently rescued from the clutches of some nefarious revolutionary cell, stand on the dock and wave their handkerchiefs...