Word: advent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...early 1980s it arrived in manufacturing in the form of robots and computerized machine tools; in the 1990s it is replacing back-room white-collar clerical workers in service industries by the score. Like the historic shift from agriculture to heavy industry in the 19th century, the advent of a new technology ought to be creating a whole new class of jobs to replace the ones lost. That's not happening: the transition has left too many workers in an economic twilight zone...
...advent of penicillin drugs in the early 1940s ushered in a triumphant era of medicine. With stunning speed, pharmaceutical chemists armed doctors with one antibiotic after another, giving them an arsenal of magic bullets to knock out the germs that cause everything from pneumonia to gonorrhea. It was only a matter of time, it seemed, before all infectious diseases would be conquered...
...issue has been more than fodder for gossip columns. The advent of AIDS has made bisexuality a matter of medical concern. Bisexual men who practice unsafe sex with male and female partners may help speed the spread of HIV through the heterosexual community. "Up until the time of AIDS, the term bisexual was hardly even used," says anthropologist Carmen Dora Guimaraes of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, "but with the spread of AIDS, we are now trying to flush out this enigmatic character...
...With the advent of the 1992 Olympics and the ensuing waves of athletes, delegates, and other official paparazzi, Barcelona--or its electronic image, at least--is now at the focal point of world concern. The city that El Caudillo--Francisco Franco--kept drab and grey until he (finally) died has been entirely re-tailored for the critical electronic eye. Word has it, in fact, that the Barcelonese spent close to $10 billion on their nothing-but-enormous urban renovation program...
...with the advent of new drug therapies, Freudian analysis has become almost irrelevant to the treatment of severe depression and schizophrenia. Granted, even the most pharmacology-minded of experts agree that the drugs work best in conjunction with some form of therapy. Yet psychiatrist Samuel Perry of Cornell University Medical College estimates that less than 1% of depression sufferers in the U.S. are being treated with traditional psychoanalysis -- that is, a long-term series of regular sessions with a psychiatrist. Though this technique is still considered suitable for treating neurotics who have trouble coping with everyday stress, not even...