Word: wretchedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Old habits, of course, die hard. Even bargain hunters can get carried away when confronted with tempting prices. And many shoppers still rationalize luxury purchases as investments. In Santa Monica, Calif., the local Lexus dealer cannot keep the $40,000 Toyota sedans in stock. Customers say the car is worth...
At 5 p.m. the rush-hour ticket line at New York City's Port Authority Bus Terminal wove through the customary wretched carnival of mendicants. One beggar twirled like a crazed ballerina from commuter to commuter, caressing people's shoulders and prodding their bellies with a beseeching hand. Another rolled...
Rather than accepting U.S. history and its meaning as settled, citizens will feel ever more free to debate where the nation's successes sprang from and what its unalterable beliefs are. They will clash over which myths and icons to invoke in education, in popular culture, in ceremonial speechmaking from...
Fayette County is what a West Virginian might call "fair to middlin.'" With an unemployment rate of 10 percent, it ranks 27th out of 55 West Virginia counties, and 24th in earnings per job. Fayette County is neither affluent nor dirt poor. If you peer into the "hollers," you can...
Too often on Houston's impoverished Northside, dead babies are forgotten. The infant-mortality rate in this Hispanic barrio rivals that of Poland. Almost 16 out of every 1,000 babies will perish before their first birthday, compared with a national infant-death rate of 10 per 1,000 Countless...