Word: twilight
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...generated effective government action at a national or international level. Both the people and their leaders seem totally bewildered about how to tackle global problems. Too often they mistakenly see a conflict between a healthy environment and healthy economies. As a result, the ecology movement has entered a twilight zone in which everybody claims to be an environmentalist, but few people know what to do about...
...Over the months and years, some researchers believe, the deficit builds up and the effects accumulate. "Most Americans no longer know what it feels like to be fully alert," contends Dr. William Dement, director of Stanford University's sleep center. They go through the day in a sort of twilight zone; the eyes may be wide open, but the brain is partly shut down...
...naively expected that interviewing for medical school would be a cross between the PBS science series "Nova" and the Phil Donahue show. I had no idea I was to make a special appearance on the "Twilight Zone...
JACOB'S LADDER. Vietnam vet Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) is seeing things: whirling heads, killer cars, villains everywhere. Is he a conspiracy victim? Or is he dead? And if so, will any moviegoer care? Adrian Lyne's revved-up spook show plays like a Twilight Zone episode on steroids...
...Biondi emerged from semiretirement to win five medals, four gold. That was more excitement than track achieved despite having such U.S. stars as Carl Lewis, Roger Kingdom, Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Evelyn Ashford, who, at 33, finished just out of the medals in the 100-meter dash in the twilight of her exceptional career...