Word: historicization
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The deeper tremors emanate from the kind of change that occurs only once every few decades. America is going through a historic transition from the heedless borrow-and-spend society of the 1980s to one that stresses savings and investment. In the short run, this helped trigger the cyclical recession...
When the recession arrived, it triggered the kind of layoffs that occur in any slump. But it has also accelerated a wave of firings that can only be attributed to longer-term structural changes, including a drastic shakeout in industries that were overbuilt in the 1970s and '80s. Among the...
RUSSIA. "Since 1917 we have been living under the occupation of Jewish fascists," says Valeri Yemelyanov, leader of one of several so-called patriotic groups. His view is totally false: though some leaders of the Bolshevik Revolution were Jewish, Joseph Stalin and his successors practiced anti-Semitism almost as zealously...
I won't tell you that name, because Garrison didn't give me any evidence for singling out this person for historic infamy. On another day, I felt, he might have picked another name out of the hat.
That was years ago, but from then on I would periodically receive catalogs of historic documents. A group shot of Nixon, Ford, Carter and Reagan, autographed by each: $4,000. A nice letter from George Washington: $35,000. An autographed photo of Sitting Bull (signed "Sitting Bull"): $17,500.