Word: wrought
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ramos talks of emulating fellow generals who have wrought economic miracles in Taiwan and South Korea. Ramos is mindful that the region's economic miracles were due in part to the authoritarian control that other leaders exercised while they effected painful economic reforms, and that it is too late to impose such measures in the Philippines...
What those wondrous years wrought, as Bartley tells it, was the unprecedented creation of 18 million new jobs and a rekindling of the American spirit. The decade saw unfettered entrepreneurs create a revolution in communication that turned personal computers, fax machines and cable TV into home and office staples. At the same time, venture capital boomed and new stock and bond offerings blossomed. Bartley even applauds changes that took place in America's eating habits. "Frozen yogurt became a diet staple," he enthuses, "with estimated sales increasing 300% between...
...reflected since then, is that the suburbs control the nation's political destiny. Voters there will punish any candidate who would have them transfer tax revenue back to the cities. And even if the new suburban majority could be persuaded to agree to massive urban aid, the damage wrought by the shift of wealth and jobs to the suburbs might be too much for mere social programs to remedy...
...naive and obvious. Does one really need a walk in the woods to discover that TV has too many sitcoms, or that the Home Shopping Network is crass? Well, maybe we do. The Age of Missing Information is an invigorating, even revelatory look at what the TV age hath wrought...
...Chilean pavilion has a 60-ton iceberg in an indoor pond. But it's the well-conceived, meticulously wrought Norwegian pavilion that triumphs in the ice-water category. In fact, Norway's building, a witty, sublime little Constructivist jewel box designed by Oslo architect Pal Henry Engh, is among the best at Expo...