Word: advent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Entertainment, which produces a dozen or so action-adventure titles a year for the foreign market, he's pleased to say R.I.P. to low-budget DTV. "The studios increased their output of theatrical films, the mom-and-pop video stores got squeezed out by the major chains, and the advent of satellite and DirecTV alleviated the necessity of driving to a corner video store. In short, the novelty of video has worn...
Wolf also discussed the advent of knowledge-based industries such as biotechnology to the area after the demise of manufacturing plants around Central Square in the 1950s and 1960s...
...situation has improved. Most animal research must be approved by special boards so that animals do not needlessly suffer. The number of animals used is decreasing with the advent of computer modeling and cell culture. Research is being trimmed so that it is both more humane and more relevant. Still, we cannot completely eliminate animal research. No matter how much we try to model the human body on a computer, there are intricacies we do not understand to be able to model them. While airplane structures can be modeled, drugs must still be tested on living things first...
...student government began at Harvard this year with the advent of campus-wide popular elections for the president and vice president...
...some, age is the advent of the encores. At 70, Russian ballerina MAYA PLISETSKAYA is still dancing (she just performed in New York City; next she's off to Spain). Age has dulled the athleticism that made her one of the Bolshoi's biggest draws (she liked to tap her head with her foot in mid-leap), but she's irrepressible. Plisetskaya told the New York Times, "I still feel the magic. If I have no more interest in dancing, I'll stop...