Word: controllers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about a man who turns into a huge insect, was the decade's scariest. And the most affecting, because director David Cronenberg made it a parable about how little we know of the people we love, and how much we still love them as they slip out of their control and ours...
Noriega's increasingly bombastic language and his trigger-happy troops may have been indications that events were spinning out of control in Panama, forcing him to extremes. But other evidence suggested that the dictator was losing control of himself: U.S. troops searching his various hideouts found, along with pictures of Adolf Hitler, collections of pornography and sophisticated weapons and more than 50 kilos of cocaine. In one Noriega guesthouse, searchers found a bucket of blood and entrails, which they said may have been used for occult rites to protect him. Was the accused drug trafficker deteriorating into a megalomaniac drug...
...entire U.S. infrastructure is becoming dilapidated. It will cost an estimated $315 billion in the 1990s to put American highways in the condition that existed in 1983. Bridge repairs could run to another $72 billion. The air-traffic-control system needs $25 billion...
...world's ten biggest banks were American; today eight are Japanese and only one American. In that same decade, the Tokyo stock market passed the New York Stock Exchange in total value. Average Japanese per capita income climbed past the U.S. figure. And then the Japanese bought control of Rockefeller Center, Columbia Pictures Entertainment and much of Waikiki Beach...
...certainly sees himself to be so. He has threatened to resign at least three times during the past five years, with little worry that his offer would be accepted. "Gorbachev is a superb actor," says the Carnegie Endowment's Dimitri Simes. "He rants to effect but is always in control. Like Reagan, he has a real sense of mission, but he is also a master of strategy and tactics, like Richard Nixon. And if you recall that Abraham Lincoln held off before freeing the slaves, and then consider how Gorbachev is astutely waiting for the time to be ripe before...