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Word: pamper (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1993-1993
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...haircut while planes full of $20 haircut people circle overhead; nor would a leftist contemplate selling the President's favors at $15,000 a plate fund raisers. Such behaviors belong way over on the right, along with supply-side economics, capital-gains tax reductions and other efforts to pamper the pate-eating classes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lurch to The Left? You're Kidding | 6/21/1993 | See Source »

...first illusion was that Clinton was New Democrat, a moderate unafraid to challenge liberal interests and unwilling to coddle criminals or pamper the poor. During the campaign, Clinton demonstrated his independence by insulting Jesse Jackson, executing Arkansas convicts and catering to the "forgotten middle class" while ignoring the poor...

Author: By Jordan Schreiber, | Title: Shaping 'New Democratic' Illusions | 4/28/1993 | See Source »

...want to enjoy barbecues with their families are heavily outnumbered by the Fuyuhikos, named after a character in a TV drama who was raised by his mother to excel at school and work but never to do anything else for himself and who expects his wife to pamper him the same way. Young women are putting off marrying the Fuyuhikos as long as they can. Older women who married Fuyuhiko types decades ago sometimes express their resentment at the bitter end: they insist that they be buried in individual graves rather than alongside their husband, a practice called shigo rikon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Goodbye to The Godzilla Myth | 4/19/1993 | See Source »

...Children of Men portrays a world in which all the men have become infertile. Without the prospect of posterity, the human race collapses into a ruthless, apathetic society, craving only comfort and security. Deranged would-be mothers pamper kittens in prams, Christianity has generated into a backward folk, religion of animal sacrifices, and bloodthirsty Omegas, members of the last generation born on earth, terrorize the countryside, slaughtering innocent passers-by in orgiastic rituals...

Author: By Edward P. Mcbride, | Title: P. D. James Beyond Mystery Novels | 3/11/1993 | See Source »

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