Word: myriads
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Most of the time, that strategy worked. But during the past year or so it has been falling apart. The reform forces have lost all cohesion, splintering into myriad tiny groups. All 15 Soviet republics have declared sovereignty, and so have regions and even cities within republics, producing a state of near anarchy. Gorbachev lost his best and perhaps his last chance to remain the leader of the reformists in October when he backed away from a 500-Day Plan for radical economic reform that had been worked out with Russian republic leader Boris Yeltsin, his chief domestic rival. When...
Perhaps the most insidious consequence of skimping on sleep is the irritability that increasingly pervades society. Weariness corrodes civility and erases humor, traits that ease the myriad daily frustrations, from standing in supermarket lines to refereeing the kids' squabbles. Without sufficient sleep, tempers flare faster and hotter at the slightest offense...
Thousands of these book buyers are flocking, with new converts' passion, to the myriad "Anonymous" groups; 500,000 self-help meetings are held weekly across the country. Codependents Anonymous is among the most rapidly growing of these free, confessional meetings. Addiction is a big industry these days, with expensive treatment programs, seminars, books, magazines and, yes, even "sobriety vacations." Flinty Americans may find this new commercialism discomfiting, but many anguished souls have found their salvation in 12-step programs, which owe a debt to Alcoholics Anonymous, the novel effort by two heavy drinkers who, in 1935, learned to stay sober...
...race to build advanced materials, technological prowess and financial clout may not count as much as imagination. The winners will be those who can not only fabricate exotic materials but also dream up myriad ways to use them...
Child care in America has become a kind of vast social experiment. Not only has the archetypal nuclear family of the 1950s (working father, stay-at-home wife) given way to a myriad of customized arrangements, each as unique as a baby's toeprint, but this historic shift has been accompanied by a new awareness of the importance of attachment and family ties in the emotional development of a child. Parents today, primed by racks of best-selling child- care manuals, are haunted by questions about their changing roles. What kind of bonding takes place when a child is passed...