Word: calling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sure, the biggest street demonstrations since the overthrow of the shah in 1979 were a dramatic wake-up call to the conservative clergy who are Iran?s self-appointed supreme rulers, despite parliamentary and presidential elections that allow the population a limited outlet for their own views. The frustrations of a generation raised under the Islamic revolution poured out in unprecedented six days of confrontations with authority, in which students dared challenge the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameini. But the reformers? strong suit is not street battles; it?s elections. Next March, Iranians go to the polls to elect...
...next day I met elevator boy--I'll call him E. for short--at his place of work. E. was answering phones while his co-worker took a bathroom break, so I took a seat in the reception area. Just as the pleather seats were starting to itch my panty hose, the other intern returned. Catching me looking impatient, she asked if I'd been helped, and, in the same breath asked E. when the "lunch chick" was going to arrive...
...skull of the late actor-comedian Del Close was given to Chicago's Goodman Theatre for use in roles like Hamlet's Yorick that call for such deadpan talent...
Parents can make this easy for children, she said, by always introducing other adults as "Mr., Miss or Ms." In front of a child, do not ask other adults what name they would like the child to call them by; in a panic they might suggest their first name. If an adult insists that she be addressed by her first name, though, the child should comply. Ms. Baldrige then suggested that parents like me should grow up immediately, and politely ask to be addressed correctly. Before we hung up, I had one more question. "May I call you Letitia...
...this remains to be discovered. The most important thing to take away from this research news is that it's a "proof of concept," as scientists call it. Before now, they weren't sure they could dissolve amyloid plaques outside a test tube. Now they know they can. Even if vaccination turns out not to be the best route, researchers have a direction in which to concentrate their efforts. And sometimes in science, that's all you need...