Word: benignity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Machinery designed to detect flaws in nuclear warheads will soon be turned to more benign use: finding early signs of breast cancer. Digital X-ray systems developed at Lawrence Livermore weapons lab should spot tiny tumors that the old film-based X-ray machines miss...
...kids don't know much about that. But never mind. Televised westerns have filled the gap, imbuing them with the spirit of benign outlawry. They assert it first in the richly comic sequence in which they try to hide their horse from the police (who are in league with a rich man who wants to turn Tir na nOg into a champion jumper) in their tiny apartment. They maintain it as they move on into the west, where one of their refuges is, appropriately, a movie theater closed for the night. The sweetly funny improvisations of their flight through...
Washington wants to help Shevardnadze's government regain control, and dispatched Woodruff to provide antiterrorist training to the bodyguards of top Georgian officials, teaching them defensive measures, negotiation tactics and crisis management. But in Georgia's highly charged politics, something as benign as preventing assassination can still be taken as a provocation...
...where she had once worked in the human resources department. There Lewis was examined by a team headed by Dr. Gilbert Mudge, chief of the hospital's cardiology clinic. Mudge's diagnosis, delivered in a televised press conference: no life-threatening heartbeat arrhythmia, but instead neurocardiogenic syncope, a fairly benign fainting condition caused by nerve irregularities during or after peak periods of exertion. "I am confident," said Mudge, "he can return to professional basketball without limitations...
...Arlen Specter, having recently returned from his native Pennsylvania after surgery to remove a benign brain tumor, has, one hopes, had the fear of God struck into...