Top phrases of the decade

I wrote recently of the "top words" of the decade, based on calculations of The Global Language Monitor, which uses a math formula to track the frequency of words and phrases in print and electronic media.

Here are the top phrases of the decade.

1. Climate Change (2000) Green words in every form   dominant the decade
2. Financial Tsunami (2008) One quarter of the world’s wealth vanishes seemingly overnight
3. Ground Zero (2001) Site of 9/11terrorist attack in New York City
4. War on Terror (2001)  Bush administration’s response to 9/11
5. Weapons of Mass Destruction (2003)  Bush’s WMDs never found in Iraq or the Syrian desert
6. Swine Flu (2008) H1N1, please, so as not to offend the pork industry or religious sensitivities!
7. “Let’s Roll!” (2001)  Todd Beamer’s last words before Flight 93 crashed into the PA countryside
8. Red State/Blue State (2004) Republican or Democratic control of states
9. Carbon footprint (2007) How much CO² does an activity produce?
10. Shock-and-awe (2003) Initial strategy of Iraq War
11. Ponzi Scheme (2009) Madoff’s strategy reaped billions & heartache
12. Category Four (2005) Force of Hurricane Katrina hitting New Orleans’ seawalls and levies
13. King of Pop (2000)  Elvis was the King, MJ the King (of Pop)
14. “Stay the Course” (2004) Dubya’s off-stated guidance for Iraq War
15. “Yes, we can!” (2008)   Obama’s winning campaign slogan
16. “Jai Ho!” (2008)  Shout of joy from ‘Slumdog Millionaire’
17. “Out of the Mainstream” (2003) Complaint about any opposition’s political platform
18. Cloud computing (2007)  Using the Internet as a large computational device
19. Threat Fatigue (2004)   One too many terrorist threat alerts
20. Same-sex marriage (2003) Marriage of gay couple