Word: brand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decade ago, we might have looked on such a medical achievement with something like awe," says Senior Editor David Brand, who is responsible for TIME'S health and medical stories. "We are still fascinated by this new technology, but now we are looking beyond it to very pertinent social and ethical questions...
...past 15 years or so, reader interest in such issues has grown remarkably. Growing along with that interest has been more sophisticated medical reporting. "Journalists no longer uncritically accept the word of physicians," says Brand. They are far more knowledgeable now about medical issues, he adds, and about how such issues relate to larger concerns of society...
...paying for our myopia for years to come, because the President now has the rare opportunity to dramatically after the composition of that revered branch of government and insure that in the judicial arm at least, his brand of conservatism will live on long after his tenure in office. Laws passed by a conservative Congress may be overturned in later sessions and executive orders may be rescinded by later chiefs, but a Reagan lifetime appointee to the High Court will have say on much viral matters as abortion, school prayer and affirmative action well into the next century...
...firms in the community. "In rural Minnesota, many banks lend money on a handshake," says Daryl Erdman, the Minnesota supermarket owner. "Even if a guy's financial statement is a mess, the banker knows he's good for it. What happens if Chase Manhattan puts a brand-new East Coast M.B. A. in here...
...weeks ago, 130 of America's most devoted hackers gathered in the barracks of a refurbished Army post in Sausalito, Calif., at the invitation of a group of computer experts headed by Stewart Brand, editor in chief of the Whole Earth Software Catalog. Brand's idea was to bring together, for the first time, people from several generations of hackers, and his guests included some of the brightest stars in computing: Ted Nelson, author of Computer Lib, a widely read handbook from the mid-1970s; Stephen Wozniak, who built the original Apple computer; Lee Felsenstein, designer...