Word: wretchedness
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Those looking to Washington for guidance may be disappointed. As the sordid spectacle of the budget battle and the midterm elections showed, there is still no will in the capital to make hard economic decisions. "How do they ever expect our kids to pay that $3.3 trillion debt?" worries Tom...
Why should the U.S. care? In the instance of Iraq, because of oil and Israel. But there are more general reasons. Some years ago, a French novel imagined desperate hordes of the Third World poor advancing on the West. One need not take that prophecy literally to worry about terrorism...
At the height of his power in the Roaring Eighties, Charles Keating commanded an estimated $100 million personal fortune, controlled $1 billion in financial assets and counted a handful of U.S. Senators among his powerful buddies. Last week he stood as a wretched symbol of the past decade's financial...
Growing up in Shelby, Mont., Horner collected his first dinosaur fossil at the age of eight, and he set out in high school to become either a paleontologist or the next Wernher Von Braun. His schoolwork was wretched, but he excelled at science projects. One, presented to a small group...
But there is more separating 1990s youngsters from the sense of place and history that so clearly marked their parents' childhoods. Most older white Southerners overtly or passively supported massive resistance in the '50s and '60s. What can they possibly say to their children to justify or explain, let alone...