Word: breeding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is a growing breed of shopper in gun stores and on the shooting range that fits a very different profile from the traditional sportsman. More and more are women: Smith & Wesson reports that sales of its Lady Smith line of rosewood-grip guns doubled last year. That troubles Barbara Shaw, executive director of the Illinois Council for the Prevention of Violence. "Women are being encouraged to buy guns to protect themselves," she observes. "That's the hardest argument to deal with because the fear can be very real. The gun can create an aura of control. But in reality...
Harvard is a terrible place to breed football coaches. Sure, there's that whole idea about "being the best" that Harvard likes to foist on its students and faculty, but when it comes to sports the university likes to stress the personal growth of the individual over winning. Wins and losses aren't as important as building the complete student-athlete. That's "the Harvard experience...
...argument that the clones will be subpeople, existing to gratify % the vanity of their parents (or their "originals," as the case may be), since when has it been illegal to use one person as a vehicle for the ambitions of another? If we don't yet breed children for their SAT scores, there is a whole class of people, heavily overlapping with the in vitro class, who coach their toddlers to get into the nursery schools that offer a fast track to Harvard. You don't have to have been born in a test tube to be an extension...
...breed of pragmatic mayor takes charge at city hall...
...growing Hispanic electorate, which gave Dinkins 64% of its vote in 1989 but may deliver less for him this time around. Whichever candidate they elect, New Yorkers can only hope that their new chief executive will be modest enough to borrow a page or two from the new breed of mayors in America's smaller cities...