Word: monolithic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...difficult to think of the U.S.S.R. as a great monolith and to hold rigidly to your views of an adversarial relationship when you get to know individuals," said Dingman, who has been involved in the Harvard exchange since its inception...
...Horseshoe: May 12, 1985. Representatives from the NBA's seven worst teams pile into Madison Square Garden for the league's first lottery. Knick general manager Dave DeBusschere, desperate for the Knicks to acquire the rights to Georgetown monolith Pat Ewing, brings a lucky horseshoe to supplement his home-court advantage. It works. The Knicks get Ewing, quickly tagged "The Franchise" by New York reporters. Led by The Franchise, the Knicks come in last again...
They underestimate the voter who also happens to be Black. And its also looping them into one corner, as if they are a monolith, with all of the same interests at stake...
...went down to the Soldiers' Field tennis courts the other day to play street hockey for dear old Adams House against the concrete monolith of Mather...
...decade ago, China appeared to be a monolith, but times have changed. After nine years of Deng Xiaoping's "Second Revolution" -- economic reform -- two Chinas have emerged. In the relatively prosperous coastal regions, millions of successful entrepreneurs are building a future in exports to the outside world. Meanwhile, most of the interior provinces lag well behind, thanks to stagnant state planning, price-controlled agriculture and millions of cadres clinging to Mao's rusty concept of the "iron rice bowl," lifelong employment guaranteed by the state. In parts of the interior, especially the large cities and Sichuan, Deng's home province...