Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Comers The twentysomething generation moved into the working world and offered up some fractured Shakespeare: what to be -- or not to be. The don't wannabes balked at baby boomers' workaholic values, postponed marriage and shunned decision making. As the year wound down, this 48 million- strong force was still seeking an identity to call...
...Washington's American University offered the school's former President, Richard Berendzen, a $1 million settlement after he pleaded guilty to making obscene calls to a female day-care worker and resigned his post. The deal caused such an uproar that a month later it was rescinded. But Berendzen still gets some $380,000 in severance pay and works as a full professor in the physics department (he's an astronomer) at about $70,000 a year...
...Washington three days later to deliver a speech that warned about federal budget deficits, he may have hoped his troubles were over for a while. No such luck. On the same day Republican state comptroller Ned Regan announced that because revenue projections had been too optimistic, the state was still facing a budget shortfall of $500 million...
...materials but of cooperation and markets. Our economy was based on specific trading patterns within Comecon. Hundreds of enterprises were working to produce goods for the Soviet economy, goods the West would not buy because of quality or other factors. We could not switch overnight, and we still cannot do it today. Imagine the scenario had the opposition ((Solidarity)) taken over in the autumn of 1981 and inherited such an economic situation on the eve of winter, when there were already serious shortages in the marketplace. It would have been a catastrophe and may have even made impossible...
...will be nervous until they find their identity, but there is still another reason to be worried. Consider this: We're on the home stretch to the millennium.The end of a century, let alone a millennium, tends to bring forth bursts of energy and confusion. Even in 1990, as the Hubble space telescope peers deeply (sometimes fuzzily) into the cosmos, sliding toward the 20th century's close feels a little like sailing off the edge of the world. No one knows what is beyond...