Word: clamor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...surprisingly, those who see Columbus' journey as a triumph of the human progress toward perfection and those who view the same event as a hemispheric rape do not have many kindly things to say to one another. But they are shouting a lot, and this clamor, so far, has defined the ceremonies to come...
...AMERICA'S CITIES cry for help, sinking in a whirlpool of corruption, economic decay and educational stagnation, the middle classes continue to row hard for the suburbs, ears plugged to the clamor, eyes fixed on what they leave behind...
Last week Bonn strengthened its demand for the return of former East German leader Erich Honecker, who fled to the Soviet Union in March to escape manslaughter charges arising from his shoot-to-kill orders to prevent East Germans escaping to the West. But generally there is little clamor for vengeance. Except for Romania's Nicolae Ceausescu, who underwent a televised trial and execution, relatively few former communist leaders have been prosecuted, and none executed...
...real enemy is recession." So far this year, wholesale prices have fallen at a 1.7% annual rate, a trend that will give critics of the Fed more leverage in arguing for interest rates even lower than Greenspan has already pushed them. And as the 1992 elections approach, the political clamor for easier credit may grow deafening...
Much of the clamor is unavoidable because it fills work sites or public places. As many as 10 million Americans are exposed daily to on-the-job noise that could gradually cause some degree of permanent hearing loss. Sixty million Americans endure other noise, including the cacophony of city traffic, that is louder than the level the Federal Government deems safe, and 15 million live close to busy airports or beneath heavily traveled air routes. In some neighborhoods of northern New Jersey, more than 1,000 flights thunder overhead each...