Word: clogging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most common new use of technology in Harvard's classes is a web site which handles many of the administrative details of the class. Typically sites include syllabi, problem sets, course announcements, lecture outlines and other information that used to clog copy machines and clutter trash cans...
Second, the Crimson defense failed to clog up the middle and prevent Virginia's speedy mid-fielders from penetrating into the crease...
This year has brought a new call to clean the pipes because in this campaign, as in the ones before it, 30-sec. ads often seem to clog and sully the National Conversation. Last week the television networks were pushed into the arena with proposals to give candidates free, unfiltered access to the airwaves during the closing weeks of the race this fall. Their offers represented a victory for crusaders led by apostate journalist Paul Taylor and his coalition Free TV for Straight Talk, which has argued that the best way to counteract voter apathy and mounting cynicism...
...receive does not come without costs. By making each person pay $10 each time he or she visits the doctor's office, patients are more likely to value the advice and treatment they receive. In addition, the $10 co-payment acts as a check on frivolous visits that can clog up doctor's offices and lead to medical inflation...
...most popular business to pursue is show business. Get ready for dramatic recitations and piano flourishes, tap dancing and clog dancing. To ensure again that TV viewers will be exposed to more opera on this one show than in the rest of the year, five of the 50 promise a "classical vocal." Classical, perhaps; classic, perhaps not. To have a "talent" is not always to be talented. Then again, anticipating the mangling of a high C is one of the evil joys of pageant watching...