Word: age
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...nuttiest presidential election in a century closed out with plenty of suggestions (especially from the Democrats, who found Al Gore's popular-vote win to be an excellent moral pedestal). Ditch the electoral college (thank you, Hillary). Nationalize the ballot. And for gosh sakes, this is the Information Age - let's get the technology by which we read the public will out of the age of disco...
...studies, while extensive, do carry certain caveats. The findings can be applied only to phones operating with analog systems - an ever-dwindling inventory in this age of digital communications. And because most interviewees have had their phones only for an average of three years, the studies' authors caution against sweeping statements of safety, urging further-reaching surveys to determine the effects long-term cell phone...
...Global Trends 2015" sees the declining authority of the state as a general worldwide phenomenon in the age of globalization. States remain the main actors on the international stage, but their ability to control the movement of everything from capital and commodities to guns, diseases and people is being diminished. And dealing with such a world requires that the U.S. adapt its own government structures and make them more interdisciplinary than at present...
...weren't for the Marshall Plan, most of Western Europe would have gone communist at the end of World War II - at the ballot box. Plowing billions of dollars of aid and investment into Europe also created the domestic demand that boosted the U.S. economy into its golden age of postwar growth. But the idea of targeting aid and investment in pursuit of foreign policy goals is anathema to today's political and business community. No Marshall Plan would pass this Congress. And that leaves Washington with a lot less to back up its claim to global leadership...
...maintain its hegemony, or will new challenges arise to its control? Think also of the changes in daily life: Now, just like in all previous societies, most of humanity scratches out a living from small dirt fields in grinding, famine-prone poverty, and vast numbers of children die before age five...