Word: amuck
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stakes are enormous. The science needed to effect this revolutionary transition is at hand; it's the nation's psychology that lags. Americans are still exorcising political ghosts and brooding about run-amuck populism through electronic plebiscites dominated by Rush Limbaugh and The Simpsons. But a gradual, successful infusion of new technology into 21st century politics should serve to build confidence among skeptics. The mood of the nation is ripe. Last year survey takers reported that U.S. computer owners listed politics online as one of their highest priorities. And the newest political parties and movements often show a high-tech...
...overseeing hundreds of contracts, rather than hand off the duties to a general contractor, who might have provided tighter management. Notes an insider: "It was raw greed. Everyone wanted a piece of the contract monies. The city lost control at the outset, and the project was destined to run amuck...
...state commission examining the slaughter, it does not look so elementary anymore. Baruch Goldstein, the Hebron triggerman, is no longer the sole subject of suspicion, now that witnesses say a second man may have been involved. More broadly, an entire national mind-set that enabled settlers to run amuck with shocking ease is on trial...
Revelatory and, in Rundgren's solo concerts, running amuck. Perched on a small platform beneath 24 blinking video monitors, he sings and "plays" his Apple Powerbook 170 laptop computer, a synthesizer and occasionally even a guitar. Audience members can sing along or swat drum pads and see their images recorded and played back at them, mixed, enhanced and amplified in a potentially infinite variety of ways by Rundgren. There is no set list or running order, no lighting or sound technician; Rundgren, a New Age Wizard of Oz, does...
...summoned the campus police. And though Jacobowitz, an Orthodox Jew, explained the epithet as a translation for the Hebrew behemah, slang for "fool" or "dummy," he was charged with racial harassment under Penn's hate-speech policy and threatened with suspension. The case became a symbol of correctness run amuck, and Sheldon Hackney, outgoing president of the university (and current head of the National Endowment for the Humanities), was blasted for failing to defend free speech. Eventually, the charges against Jacobowitz were dropped...