Word: attachment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...GUESS I probably to attach to much meaning to a piece of sugar. I must be emotionally scarred from an incident in junior high, when the future high school quarter back raced down the hall, pursued by his rowdy friends. As he passed me at my locker, he thrust a conversation heart down the back of my shirt. He kept running. I forget what the heart said, but I was intrigued. Over the next few days, I waited for some kind of follow-up, some explanation, some profession of love. Nothing happened...
...manner of games and run interactive programs. Five years in the making, the VCR-size unit joins CDTV, | a similar machine that was introduced by Commodore in January, and CD-ROM, a system for playing CDs on Apple and IBM-compatible personal computers. Even Nintendo has announced plans to attach a compact-disc drive to the latest version of its video-game machine. "After years of public relations hype," says David Bunnell, publisher of a start-up magazine called NewMedia, "multimedia finally is for real...
...lymphocytes generally swim by and attach onto the surface of foreign cells," Faustman says. They have a "memory" which allows them to promptly attack a previously identified coding region, or epitope, on the cell...
...drop out of school, your earnings can be in free fall -- that is if you're lucky enough to get a job in the first place. You end up dragging down the whole society. You cost us more than you contribute. So obviously we have the right to attach conditions designed to keep you in school...
Congress and the White House have been bickering all summer over whether to attach human-rights conditions to MFN status for China, and there could be another fight this fall over President Bush's recent promise to grant MFN to the Soviet Union. The very subject of the U.S.S.R. sends the American body politic into spasms of divisive debate. That eternally troubled, troublesome country is the oldest and most vivid example of how unsuccessful the U.S. has been at using tariffs as punitive or coercive instruments of diplomacy. In 1912 the Taft Administration revoked a commercial treaty with czarist Russia...