Word: generalized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mazda MX-5 Miata. The Japanese were already building more reliable, cheaper cars than American automakers; suddenly, they are also producing a more splendid-looking car. Designed in Mazda's California R.-and-D. center by Mark Jordan, son of General Motor's design chief, the 1989 Miata is the first production car to share the decade's penchant for alluding to other eras: not just a convertible, but the sweet, plump, rounded lines of '50s-style sports cars...
...dozens of officers for imprisonment or execution, deepening tensions in the barracks. In public, he sometimes appeared drunk and showed the telltale signs of cocaine abuse. Noriega supporters say that in December, in the wake of reports that Bush had authorized a new covert plan to oust him, the general sank into a deep depression. Under mounting pressure, trusting no one, he was fatalistic about his chances of surviving his confrontation with...
First, however, Noriega must be found. At week's end a State Department official said Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Michael Kozak had traveled to Panama to advise the Endara government and try to negotiate Noriega's surrender. One of the general's American lawyers, Raymond Takiff, predicts that will never happen. "I feel unhappily secure in my belief that he will be killed," Takiff says. "He will not be captured...
...atmosphere of the 1980s, along with actual crimes, spread a general sense that anything goes. Get rich, borrow, spend, enjoy. Not only Gordon Gekko said greed is good; so did Ivan Boesky, the dapper king of arbitrage, before he ended up going to prison (Gekko presumably landed there too). And the close of the decade was symbolized by Boesky not just going to prison but also emerging on leave in a long white beard that made him look like some reincarnation of the Ancient Mariner or King Lear...
...business leaders look toward both past and future with considerable misgivings. "The costs of all this are going to be horrendous in the 1990s," says Donald Clark, chairman of Household International. "We just overlooked major problems like drugs and our schools." Elmer Johnson, a , former executive vice president of General Motors, says, "The financial wizards of wheeling, dealing and acquisitions brought their bags of tricks, but they turned out to be a lot of hogwash. The main concern should have been, Who's minding the store?" Observes William Weisz, vice chairman of Motorola: "The kind of issues we have...