Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clean-cut Young Independents in ties and button-down shirts hung out next to scruffy members of the liberal Cambridge Tenants Union (CTU), snacking on baklava and cookies from the Longfellow PTA bake sale set up outside the gym. Conservative Independents joked with members of the progressive Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), although Vellucci, an Independent, and Cyr, a member of the CCA, are currently battling it out for the crucial ninth council seat, which will give one group a majority on the council...
...Kevorkian, a retired Michigan pathologist who appeared on every television talk show and news program in the country last year in the 24 hours after he helped Alzheimer's patient Janet Adkins commit suicide. He hooked her up to a homemade contraption that allowed her to push a button and send lethal potassium chloride into her veins. A Michigan judge chose not to prosecute Kevorkian for murder, since the state has no laws against assisted suicide, but forbade him to use the machine again. By last week, Dr. Death had found a way around that injunction...
Toxic is fast becoming the hot-button word. Books include Toxic Parents and Toxic Psychiatry. A USA Today headline last week trumpeted SHE FOUGHT TOXIC RACISM AND WON. Next: toxic ideas. You are what you think...
...price tags. "In the future you'll see bipod masts and carbon-fiber construction all over," says Olaf Harken, co-founder of Wisconsin's Harken Yacht Equipment, the world's second largest manufacturer of boat hardware, and a driving force behind the Procyon. "The benefits are so substantial." Push-button sailing, anyone...
...gets into an elevator and an intern is the only other passenger, Dave hangs out in the door talking to people. Only he doesn't just hang; he hovers there, just in and out enough so that the intern doesn't know whether to press the Door Open button or to just wait. It's nerve-racking enough to have to contemplate what you are going to say to David Letterman during a 14 floor ride; on top of this, the man makes a joke out of the whole thing by building up the anticipation even higher...