Word: ranged
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...self-doubt at home, American entertainment products -- movies, records, books, theme parks, sports, cartoons, television shows -- are projecting an imperial self-confidence across the globe. Entertainment is America's second biggest net export (behind aerospace), bringing in a trade surplus of more than $5 billion a year. American entertainment rang up some $300 billion in sales last year, of which an estimated 20% came from abroad. By the year 2000, half of the revenues from American movies and records will be earned in foreign countries...
...power behind the throne, but Mazowiecki kept his old colleague at arm's length. Walesa brought his resentment onto the campaign trail, complaining at one rally that though he had a special phone line installed at his Gdansk headquarters to connect him with Mazowiecki's office, "it never rang." With his hearty manner and working-class accent, Walesa derided Mazowiecki as an intellectual out of touch with ordinary Poles...
...Kerry's absence was telling. At his Boston campaign headquarters, phones rang endlessly and messages were lost or forgotten. While Rappaport splashed full-page ads onto the Boston Globe and payed for high-tech TV advertising, Kerry's campaign machine seemed to be stalled...
...unwillingness of both the Democrat-controlled Congress and the Republican Administration to face that harsh but inescapable truth had made the battle over the budget a prolonged and ugly struggle. It had a harsh edge to the very end. Late Friday night the House chamber rang with boos and shouts as members postured and debated before finally voting 228-200 to approve the plan. On Saturday afternoon, Senators converged on the Capitol for an extraordinary session and quickly okayed the package...
Next, the cold war was won. In the accompanying euphoria, the idea was born that having once again won the war to end all wars, the U.S. could finally lay down its burdens. Calls rang out for cutting the defense budget in half by the end of the decade. The New Yorker, with its unerring instinct for the politically trendy and the politically stupid, suggested (quoting Daniel Ellsberg) doing the 50% cut right now. In Congress the rush was on for wholesale American demobilization. A reporter, complaining at a Feb. 12 White House press conference about "out of sync" defense...