Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Denver Merchandise Mart earlier this month, where several thousand attendants watched merchants demonstrate how to load a blowgun, use dryer lint to start a fire and cook an egg on a stick. Even survivalist stalwarts at the event were beginning to downplay fears that the Y2K computer bug will cause chaos come Jan. 1. "I don't think that the world is coming to a screeching halt," says renowned survivalist Bo Gritz. But in Paonia, Colo., Joy MacNulty, 69, isn't taking chances. Not only is she laying in food, water, a woodstove and a greenhouse at home...
...Efficient; not as unwieldy Too close to name ("TWO KAYS") as "thousand" of computer bug...
...most overused word of the year. Yet for some reason--our brain circuitry's own Y2K bug perhaps--millennium is also the most shamelessly misspelled one. In 1999, newspaper and magazine editors in America and Britain omitted the second n a full 4,709 times. There's Elizabeth Arden's new Millenium Energist Revitalizing Emulsion; New York City's Millenium Hilton Hotel; and later this month, a New Year's Eve scene from the NBC movie Y2K, above. A concierge at the Millenium Hilton offers an explanation: "We did it to have originality--for the creativity...
...Some have dared to call this the last Jesus of the millennium--a trailer if you will, a preview of the Real Deal. Whether you've been bitten by the Y2J bug or just think the whole thing bites, we hope you've enjoyed this weekly feature on one of the biggest productions of the fall theater season. Ready for the Second Coming? Operators are standing...
...matter how great our technology, we'll still have to go mano a mano with the microbes. We may not completely win the 21st century bug hunt, but I am confident that we won't lose...