Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other "pre-existing condition," in the insurance jargon. You could not lose your insurance or have it reduced because you are fired or laid off, or because your company goes bankrupt or because you quit to look for a better job; your benefits will be portable. "The health-security button is the one we're pushing," says a White House official involved in the planning. "People will pay more for security...
James, a short boy with a raspy laugh, jumps up to compete in a paper ball throwing contest. "See what this music has done to James," cries Banks. She pushes the stop button on the tape recorder...
...everyone knows, they don't. Whether women's lacrosse superstar Liz Berkery tallies two goals and four assists or four goals and two assists matters not a whit compared to whether Yeltsin's going to push the button. If Liz scores a hat trick, the world keeps on turning. If Boris pushes the button, it doesn...
...Hook to old Marx Brothers movies to last night's MacNeil Lehrer NewsHour) and have their choices appear on screen whenever they want them, any time, day or night. But behind the high-tech service is an almost laughably low-tech delivery system. When a customer presses the Enter button, a bell goes off in a three-story building a few miles away, alerting a TCI attendant that he has five minutes to run to the video library, grab the proper tape and slot it into one of a bank of VCRs...
...that will be only a way station. The final destination is a post-channel universe of essentially unlimited choice: virtually everything produced for the medium, past or present, plus a wealth of other information and entertainment options, stored in computer banks and available instantly at the touch of a button...