Word: amassive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Well, what on the Palace isn't? The community's primary units of currency are scripts and props, the limitless rainbow of graphical snippets used to perpetually reinvent one's avatar: photos and drawings, bonnets and six-guns, mascots and blackboards, halos and bongs. Palace vets amass hoards of props and trade them like baseball cards. Sites on the indispensable A-to-Z List of active palaces blare come-ons like HUGE PROP MALL! Collect enough props and build a cool palace, and you can stage a runway show in your own private Versailles. "Vanity pages built the Web," says...
...NASA wouldn't let a monkey try. Last year 14 million amped kids watched, and more are expected to tune in this time to the 11-day event. Sponsors counting on this include Adidas, AT&T, Chevrolet and the U.S. Marines, who couldn't invent a better gimmick to amass potential recruits...
...anxious markets. "I will adhere to the agreement already reached with the IMF and faithfully carry out reforms," Kim promised the nation the morning after his win. Well aware of how deep antipathy toward him runs among conservatives, Kim will need to reach out immediately if he is to amass enough support to push through those prescriptions. Last week he successfully requested pardons for two ex-Presidents who, as generals, had persecuted...
...against Iranians and Iraqi Kurds. Trained as an assassin--while a young man he took part in a 1959 attempt on the Iraqi Prime Minister--he once ordered a hit on George Bush. He has tried to build atom bombs and, U.N. inspectors believe, he is working to amass a stock of nerve gas and germ weapons. Finally--and this is crucial--he himself is the problem. Iraq experts agree that any successor, no matter how thuggish, would be less powerful, less malevolent, less dangerous. Isn't it moral--as with Hitler in 1938--to take this one life before...
...sealed," not only until death doth part, but for eternity. And believers conduct proxy baptisms for the dead: to assure non-Mormon ancestors of an opportunity for salvation, current Mormons may be immersed on their behalf. The importance of baptizing one's progenitors has led the Mormons to amass the fullest genealogical record in the world, the microfilmed equivalent of 7 million books of 300 pages apiece...