Word: cold
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lobbying, new research efforts to still public fears and TV, radio and newspaper ads. It is also beginning to listen more. "To brush off concern [about g.m. crops] as unfounded is to be arrogant and reckless," says DuPont ceo Charles Holliday Jr. And even though it gave FrankenTony the cold shoulder, Kellogg's is already phasing out genetically modified products in Europe--not, it insists, for safety reasons but just to please consumers...
...first night they took away everything--my drugs, my booze, even my wallet, car keys and New Yorker magazine--and left me nothing but the "Big Book" of Alcoholics Anonymous and the promise (or was it a warning?) that I was under medical supervision. I was shown to a cold hospital detox room with rubberized sheets...
James Bond films--the first of which, Dr. No, premiered in 1962--were well-suited to the Cold War's ideological fervor. It must have been great fun to watch Bond outwit and outclass hapless Commies. World is the third Bond film since the end of the Cold War and, while its Russophobia is still pronounced, the conflict has lost most of its prior urgency. Avarice and vainglory have replaced zealous patriotism as the cardinal passions of Bond's adversaries...
Despite its minor flaws, however, World is a fine film. With any luck, it will ensure that another generation of young men are educated in the Bond tradition--sans Cold War, sans original plots, sans homely women, sans everything...
Rosengart performed the operation in mid-January. He made a 5-in. incision in my back--the scar feels as if I could mail letters through it--and pried open ribs (which still ache when I sneeze) to expose the heart, which he injected 20 times with a cold virus and DNA that instructs the heart: Grow vessels here...