Word: age
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...present moment--which is all we have to work with--and fight it out for supremacy. The old habitually say that everything was better when they were young--let's go back. The young are by nature sure that everything will be better when they come of age--let's go forward. In the former Yugoslavia, in Somalia and the Middle East, America has come in saying, "Make a fresh start!" And those caught in their ancestral rivalries reply, "How can we make a pact with the future until we have made a peace with the past?" During...
...They'll have to think of something. The proposal is one of many that are sure to arise as the federal government struggles to come up with a regulatory system that makes sense in the Internet age. The most contentious of these is the thorny question of taxation. There are currently no sales taxes on items bought on the Internet, a situation that has states concerned about lost revenue and traditional retailers worried about lost business. As e-commerce grows, it will take a bigger bite out of the sales tax revenue that is the lifeblood of many states...
Women of a certain age...
...age was so towering that a cynic looking back could not have contempt for it. To re-create the bustling, politically contentious '30s, when a young Orson Welles tried to stage the socialist musical The Cradle Will Rock with federal funding, Robbins has splashed a couple of dozen real people onto a garish movie mural, Diego Rivera-style. While Welles (MacFayden) and producer John Houseman (Elwes) try to persuade their government patron (Jones) not to cancel the show, Nelson Rockefeller (Cusack) romances Rivera (Blades), then literally trashes his work. There's also a young actress (Watson), an old ventriloquist (Murray...
...meat replacement. The agency proposed using soy as an alternative to some of the meats in school lunch menus. American school refectories, which depend heavily on pork, poultry and beef, have been hard-pressed to meet government limits for fat content in lunches, even as school-age children gain weight at a record pace. Predictably, ranchers, chicken and pig farmers are raising a ruckus over the agency's proposal - but analysts predict the increasingly health-conscious public is ready for tasty alternatives to meat. "Soy's time has come," the USDA undersecretary for food, nutrition and consumer services told...