Word: bites
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bite Out of Crime...
...When Loker Commons opened its doors in the fall term, we weren't disappointed.... The well-designed pine-stained study nooks ensure students a high degree of privacy, while the open areas...are great places to mix and mingle with fellow students, hold informal meetings and grab a quick bite...
...surprise that the impetus comes from a guilty press corps, which has been lambasted of late for its obsession with "horse race" journalism, for covering campaigns as if they were sports and mincing substance into sound bites. According to one study by journalist Kiku Adatto, the average sound bite on the evening news in presidential elections went from 42.3 sec. in 1968 to 8.4 sec. in 1992. And while sound bites are taking up less airtime, punditry is taking up more. A study by the Center for Media and Public Affairs shows that television correspondents covering the 1996 campaign talk...
Contemporary technophiles could learn a lot from the fire ants' story. They could learn even more from historian Edward Tenner's newly published Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences (Knopf; 346 pages; $26), in which that story and many more like it combine to paint a richly detailed picture of one of the more enduring features of modernity's landscape: the way our best-laid technological plans often go so thoroughly awry...
...brand-new Camden Yards knockoff that puffed up civic pride even while the school system was going down the tubes. Not many tears will be shed for Candlestick Park in San Francisco and County Stadium in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the Kingdome in Seattle if and when those yards bite the dust...