Word: precious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perpetual viewing chapels would contain row after row of glass-fronted coffins, either filed away in drawers like precious jewelry, waiting only to pulled out and viewed; or propped up on end side by side, behind one vast glass partition, like a gigantic human butterfly collection. Each corpse would be freeze-dried exactly as the deceased would like to be remembered by its living loved ones...
...that is the case on campus generally. The complaints of insensitivity increase, but the level of dialogue does not. As concerns focus increasingly on language and attitudes towards race and gender, as opposed to discrimination, it seems that there is precious little in the way of talking or thought on the subject. We speak to ourselves...
Originally set up more than 70 years ago to help farmers hedge their bets on the future of their crops, the Merc and the Board of Trade grew explosively during the 1980s by offering futures contracts on everything from foreign currencies to precious metals. But for all their sophisticated new financial products, the exchanges still use the old-fashioned, face-to-face auction system of making trades. The leader of the investigation, Anton Valukas, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, apparently decided that the system left plenty of room for rip-offs of commodities buyers...
...conclusion of the second, Bundy's mother told him, "You'll always be my precious son," according to today's Morning News Tribune of Tacoma...
...Reagan be Reagan." The energy level dropped, and so did the level of expertise. Only after the traumas of the Republicans' 1986 loss of the Senate and the Iran-contra scandal upset the chessboard did Reagan put effective knights into play again. But he had lost two precious years in the interim, and with them the initiative in dealing with accumulating problems...