Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...political and economic turmoil hurts Russia's ability to attract desperately needed investments from Western firms. But with a highly educated population of 148 million people, or roughly half the former Soviet Union, Russia is simply too large to ignore. "It's like the Wild West," says John Kiser, a Washington technology-trade expert. "There's no law and no contracts. The only thing you have to build on is your confidence in the people you're dealing with," he says...
...Crimson fought on. Alissi narrowly missed a rebound chance after a wild flurry in front of Whitten with...
Discouraged by their results with wild turkeys, the Bakers returned to the more traditional domestic fare this year and raised one tom which reached 27 pounds by the week of Thanksgiving...
Stephanopoulos developed his selflessness as the grandson and son of Greek Orthodox priests, expected to be above reproach -- a child impersonating a grown-up. "A lot of priest's kids go bad, go wild, can't stand the strain of the scrutiny of the flock looking at them," says Begala. "George clearly was up to it." His too-good-to-be-true face looks out from a gallery of photos lining the wall of his parents' apartment on New York City's East 74th Street, next to the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Archdiocesan Cathedral, where his father serves as dean...
...phone, among them regulars like Jessica Hahn. But the show is virtually all Stern and is always pushing the edge. Stern's conversation is every pubescent male's sex fantasy given voice; a one-man obscene gesture to the politically correct and socially discreet; the national id run wild. It is all an act, but a very savvy one: Stern's over-the-top humor draws a road map of American society's taboos of public and private behavior and brings them audaciously, often hilariously, into the open...