Word: chipping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...none of them possessed the combination of attributes that made Ashe a paradigm of understated reason and elegance. In 1973 Ashe went off to play in the South African Open to see if he could chip away at the foundation of apartheid. Militants in the African National Congress did not welcome the visit, castigating him as an Uncle Tom and telling him he should go home. Ashe listened and replied evenly, "Small concessions incline toward larger ones...
...consequence of letterform democracy typography now tilts in a direction that conservative designers of the last century would abhor. Faddish fonts dominate the media for a few months, than grow obsolete. Last year you could find Adobe's "Lithos," "Industria," and "Insignia splashed across potato chip bags, MTV, HBO, and the ads in this newspaper. It becomes possible to date to document by the type it contains. "windsor? So woody Allen, so '87. Copper plate?. Already retro by the summer of 1992. "Arcadia?". Late November 1991. "About Faces" contain non of these...
...Intel have also been parting company. After relying almost exclusively on the Santa Clara, California, company for the silicon chips that serve as computer brains, IBM has moved to reduce its dependence on Intel by turning to competing vendors. In Europe, IBM last year began selling a low- cost line of PCs called Ambra, which runs on chips made by Intel rival Advanced Micro Devices. IBM also demonstrated a sample PC using a chip made by another Intel enemy, Cyrix. And last October IBM said it would begin selling the company's own chips to outsiders in direct competition with...
...while Buffalo was fighting its way to the Super Bowl, Dallas was losing and stockpiling blue-chip draft choices like running back Emmitt Smith, quarterback Troy Aikman and wide receiver Michael Irvin. All of which proves the axiom that losing in the Super Bowl is actually worse than going 1-15. If you finish last, you at least get to pick first in the draft. Defeat in the Super Bowl, on the other hand, is a bitter bone to chew with nothing but snowbanks and February staring you in the face...
Having a blue-chip resume is fine, but not at the expense of sensitivity to everyone else's plight. "This is a crowd that doesn't have the stature to demand sacrifice," says Kevin Phillips, author of the new book Boiling Point: Republicans, Democrats and the Decline of Middle Class Prosperity. "These are people who spent Vietnam in Oxford; they are $500,000 lawyers who hire illegal immigrants as baby-sitters; they are hotshot lobbyists. This group has no understanding of the kind of sacrifices made every day by the $26,000-a-year couple in Peoria, Illinois. They...