Word: arraying
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just for you to steel and widgets crafted for specific purposes. This is especially true in the information and entertainment industries: enterprising producers can make and distribute their own news, music, videos, recipe tips and political opinions; meanwhile, consumers can tap into (and sometimes even personally tailor) an exploding array of websites, information sources, entertainment options, cable channels and opinion outlets to suit their tastes and biases. What's gained is more personal empowerment and decentralized control. What may be lost is the bonds that come from sharing a common ground of ideas and experiences, and also the ease...
Theoretically, a conglomerate made sense because it could balance out the business cycle by trading in a wide array of goods and services. Somewhat perversely, both the tax code and the antitrust policy at that time encouraged the strategy. ITT bought the maker of Wonder bread...
...reaching into the freezer for dinner here in the apartment is the sign of defeat even before calculating the fat and salt numbers. And so I indulge my obsession: bringing home expensive bottles of balsamic vinegar and olive oil, searching around for pure vanilla, buying pine nuts and an array of spatulas my roommate can't tell apart...
...enough are the roasted nut and pseudo-pizza stands that greet commuters upon departure from the train. Even worse, though, is the blinding array of CVS marquis, Gap displays and trendy nouveau cuisine eateries that vex disillusioned Harvard students yearning for the long-lost quaintness of charismatic local city neighborhoods. Today, convention is readily acquired by the swipe of a credit card, and one need not venture outside the 1-mile radius of Store 24 to take a virtual walk through similarly commercialized Beantown. The mom & pop establishments with faded awnings, friendly hellos and century-old traditions are rapidly disappearing...
That potential seems almost limitless today. In principle, stem cells could be used for a vast array of profitable--and lifesaving--therapies. They could, in theory, be coaxed into forming heart cells, for example, and injected to patch up heart muscle damaged by cardiovascular disease. They might be turned into neurons to replace brain cells destroyed by Alzheimer's. They may someday provide new pancreatic cells to pump insulin into the bloodstream of diabetics...