some key words of the decade (UNCLASSIFIED)

Mon Dec 28 22:16:34 UTC 2009

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> Some key Words of the 2000-9 decade
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> 9-11
> Al Qaida
> Aphganistan

An interesting spelling

> China
> drone
> ebay
> facebook
> foreclosure
> green
> Hubble

Why this decade more than the 1980s or 1990s?

> hybrid
> ipod
> Iraq
> myspace
> navigation

Missing the significance here.

> Obama

Too early to tell -- maybe the 2010s will be bigger.

> Ponzi

Missing the significance here -- why not the S&L scandal of the 1980s,
or any of a dozen other Ponzi schemes of the past?

> recession
> Saddam

I think the 1990s would be more appropriate for this one.

> spacestation

Don't see this as being particularly important.

> stem cells
> steroids
> stimulus
> subprime
> terrorist
> the cloud
> Tiger
> TSA
> tsunami
> tweeners
> twitter
> upside down
> utube

Do you mean Youtube?

> warming
> windmill
> Y2k
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