Word: breeds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...strategic advantage. The Economist is reports that applications and operating systems are being developed for use on the Internet itself, making the need for Microsoft absolute. The computer industry may be on the cup of yet another revolution, flushing out the decadent and inefficient with an exciting and new breed of frontiersmen...
This communal catastrophe is beginning to breed unconventional and disquieting responses. A forthcoming article in the Yale Law Review by Paul Butler, a law professor at George Washington University, reports that inner-city juries are increasingly acquitting black men they know to be guilty. "They do a cost/benefit analysis," he says. "They look at this person and decide, 'As a community, we're better off with this person out of jail than in jail.'" The practice is probably legal under a common-law doctrine allowing jurors to override the law if their own sense of justice demands...
...modern recording era has spawned a curious new breed of conductor who feels compelled to commit anything and everything to disc, even if he has little to say. A highly unscientific survey of the current Schwann catalog highlights Herbert von Karajan, Neeme Jarvi, and Sir Neville Marriner as some of the more egregious offenders...
...first-time screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker, whose range of literary allusions runs from Dante to Chaucer but whose gift for low-genre necessities--suspense, jeopardy, snappy dialogue--is nonexistent. His big idea is that man is vile and that cities are catch basins for the worst of our fallen breed. He must be very young...
...Leeuwen is a four-time all-American. All-Ivy Leaguer, Breed Award winner and Harvard Most Valuable Fencer honoree...