Word: wave
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bush was unable to name the heads of state of four countries of particular importance to U.S. foreign policy--Pakistan, India, Chechnya, and Taiwan--prompting a wave of monologue jokes and whispers about Bush's competency...
Such caution has been with Jiang from the moment Deng tapped him to head the party after the June 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. "I feel as if I am walking on thin ice," Jiang said then, and even now his nervous smile and effete hand wave suggest someone who knows he's treading delicate ground...
...years I was a resident in South Africa, I noted that free markets, population control and a "total" culture were often discussed but never implemented. The wave of sex crimes there reflects apartheid's obsession with status. This society is raping itself into psychological death. The pseudo Utopia of sunshiny materialism under waving palms has given way to hell on Earth. JOCK MILLS Basingstoke, England...
Harvard may have won the relay by only a split-second, but the victory had a tidal wave effect...
That is why the Kansas school board decision on evolution is so significant. Not because Kansas is the beginning of a creationist wave--as science, creationism is too fundamentally frivolous and evolution too intellectually powerful--but because the Kansas decision is an important cultural indicator...