Word: begotten
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their worst fear and sending Street walkers back to cowering under their desks. Bye-bye rally. Of course, if investors and traders see all this coming and sell on the news, they may have to make room under that desk for Uncle Alan -? a harmless rate hike will have begotten a serious monetary neurosis. "The Fed won?t announce a bias like last time, because this is the hike it was warning us about," says Baumohl. "It?s shifting back into neutral." Of course, to a market that?s just aching to be unleashed, "neutral" is like raw meat...
...What we beget is like ourselves while what we make is not," Harrell said. "By virtue of their having been made, [genetically engineered or cloned offspring] would be less than human as we are less than God by our virtue of being made, and not begotten...
...shoulders. Mary as intercessor percolated for several centuries in the Eastern church before exploding in the medieval West. There, fueled as much by folk devotion as by church leaders, her cult eventually can be said to have run wild ("Mary so loved the world...that she gave her only begotten son," ran one prayer), providing fuel for the Protestant reformers' charges of "Mariolatry...
...Jerusalem Bible, Today's English Version--also known as the Good News Bible--the Contemporary English Version and, well, the cup runneth over. These widely, wildly diverse texts chase the estimated $400 million that Americans spend each year on Bibles. And this proliferation of Bibles has in turn begotten a growing cottage industry in printed guides and videotapes intended to help both booksellers and customers sort through the many different choices. The age of so-called niche Bibles has arrived...
...afflicted with geography envy; they are wedded to the misconception that a glorious autumn must be followed by a dark and dreary winter. There are those, nurtured on another coast, who believe nothing great can be accomplished where palm trees grow outdoors. The technical innovations in electronics and biotechnology begotten by labs at Stanford and Berkeley, not to mention the invention of the Jefferson Airplane, put the lie to such wrongheaded thinking. Important things do happen here...