Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wrote something like 'in the nick of time,' five words, he might change it to 'in time's nick,' three words...At all times he had by him a carefully annotated translation of the Iliad. On the back cover, he had listed hundreds of words, especially verbs and the compound adjectives, which had seemed to him fresh and forceful...
...occasion, gave the magazine a distinctive voice. Men were not famous but "famed," not powerful but "potent." High on the list of accolades was "able." All were masculine terms of approbation: the news in Homeric mode, demigods or villains on tiptoe. TIME's writers loved Homer's narrative techniques. Compound adjectives: Mexico's President Francisco Madero was "wild-eyed." The World War I German Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz was "long-whiskered." Public figures were tagged with mock-heroic identifying phrases. Minnesota's Senator Henrik Shipstead was invariably "the duck-hunting dentist...
Returns to this capital from compound interest collection or prudent stock investment would allow workers themselves to provide for their retirements. According to a recent Heritage Foundation study, a 30-years-old, average- income family with dual wages can expect 1.2 percent per annum in gains from Social Security. An identical family that invests in a conservative mutual fund would earn as much as 5 percent annually. Over a lifetime of working, the difference between government and private retirement planning amounts...
...earliest extant American sources to define "love" was the 1828 Webster's New American Dictionary, which described "love between the sexes" as "a compound affection, consisting of esteem, benevolence, and animal desire." Throughout the 19th century this definition underwent significant alterations, until the same entry in the 1904 Webster's Unabridged Dictionary read, "a feeling of intimate personal sympathy and affection toward an individual of the opposite sex." In both cases, love is equated with affection. But didn't the 1828 definition pack a considerably larger wallop in terms of its candidness and discrimination...
Proponents of this plan point to the magic of compound interest and argue that individuals will have more freedom over their money and will have the opportunity to get higher benefits. Opponents claim that pensions are too risky to entrust to the private market, and that private plans undermine the social solidarity of a public program. Furthermore, they point out that privatization plans have high "transition costs." Because current workers provide benefits for current retirees, if workers divert funds into their own accounts, there would not be enough money for current retirees. Consequently, all privatization plans include hefty tax increases...