Word: commonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while Rove lurked in the background, a cellular phone in one hand and a massive biography of Benjamin Disraeli in the other. What could Disraeli, the great 19th century British Prime Minister, possibly tell us about Iowa? For Rove, that's easy. Disraeli was a Tory who championed the common man, a "compassionate conservative" more than a century before Bush turned the phrase into a campaign slogan...
Rove's passion for history and its precedents sometimes exasperates Bush, who has been known to roll his eyes when his chief strategist launches into a dissertation on, say, what this race has in common with the election of 1896. But Bush owes his phenomenal political rise--from a novice underdog candidate for Texas Governor in 1994 to the heavily favored G.O.P. front runner for President just five years later--in large part to Rove. On Saturday, when Bush handily won the straw poll, the victory was a validation of a risky campaign plan Rove devised late last year, after...
...Disease Control, more than 200 people in Minnesota and North Dakota have become ill - and four have died - after contracting a lethal strain of the staph germ known as staphylococcus aureus. Most disturbingly, the mutated germ apparently came not from the hothouse environment of hospitals - where it is common but considered manageable - but from somewhere outside...
...effectiveness," says TIME science writer Christine Gorman. Years of overuse have sapped the potency of what has been considered the greatest health care breakthrough of the 20th century. According to the Centers for Disease Control, by 1997 half of all hospital-acquired staph infections were resistant to the most common types of antibiotics. So what can doctors do? For starters, they can stop prescribing so many antibiotics - it only accelerates the development of supergerms. Already, hospitals are trying to hold back on the use of vancomycin, the last antibiotic silver bullet left in the chamber...
...SEXY Contrary to common perceptions, most older Americans are sexually active and willing to experiment. Modern Maturity magazine reports that 67% of men and 57% of women age 45 or older say a satisfying sexual relationship is important to them, and more than a quarter of Americans 75 or older have sex at least once a week. Also, the number of people who view their partners as physically attractive increases with age. Fifty-six percent of those 45 to 74 say they do, rising to 61% of those 75 or older...