Word: groupings
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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What we got instead was a year so copacetic, Neville Chamberlain could have handled it (at least for the first 10 months). The year was, until November, so boring that people across the globe staged protests over higher gas prices and trade-group meetings...
...Year 2000" segment ("In the year 2000 Roger Ebert will be so overweight and out of shape, he will no longer be able to lift either thumb."). Everyone was getting all hot and bothered. Even castrated people were getting so excited that, by 1997, a whole group of them in California decided they couldn't wait any longer and left our soon-to-explode planet early. By 1999, Pat Robertson was selling tickets to seminars where people were taught how to store beans and corn in separate barrels sealed with nitrogen packs. He apparently figured God had traded in fire...
...them in D.C., depending on whose estimate was believed); others called them anarchists. Under either name, their gripe was globalization: the enrichment of multinational corporations at the expense of the environment and the poor. An affiliation of activist organizations coalescing as the Mobilization for Global Justice, the group showed up again later in the year to disrupt a monetary conference in Melbourne, Australia. Just as graphic as the IMF protests, and hitting closer to home, was the violence associated with the Firestone tire problem. On Aug. 9 the U.S. subsidiary of Japan's Bridgestone Corp. said it was voluntarily recalling...
...year rife with space-age communication, space-age travel, once a presumed inevitability of the new millennium, wasn't happening. Instead, the hip mode of transportation evoked the era of Eisenhower, if not the Flintstones. The foot-propelled scooter captivated virtually every age group in every community across America. Collapsible, portable and all but useless for even medium-distance commutes, the scooter achieved enough prominence to generate its own backlash: injuries to riders, irritation to pedestrians. For the duration of its extended moment, the scooter answered a nostalgia for an earlier age and a desire for frivolity in this...
...Great Plains, where space is not at a premium. You can pirouette down the sidewalk in Omaha if you want to. But space is limited here in New York City. And no New Yorker ever walks more than two abreast; even if you're in a group of ten people, you'll walk in five pairs, not ten across. Or even better, single file...