Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chagrin of some party insiders, six GOP Representatives have already announced they will abide by their pledges and not seek reelection in 2000. But the number six is crucial: It's exactly the margin of votes by which Republicans currently control the House of Representatives. In the shark-infested waters of politics, nothing draws an opposing party faster than an open seat. That's because incumbents enjoy a reelection rate of more than 95 percent. The best chance of a party turnover occurs when a seat opens...
Reindl's conclusions come from both her interactions with students and a survey conducted by a member of the psychology department in 1991. The research showed that 24 percent of women and 4 percent of men said they had used starvation or fasting as a method of weight control sometime during college...
According to the survey, 13 percent of women and 5 percent of men defined themselves as compulsive exercisers and 25 percent of women said the main reason for their exercise is weight control...
...dancers are silhouetted against a white screen. They approach each other slowly, seductively. The dance begins--silent, sensual, hypnotic. The dancers circle each other, trapped in a deadly game of passion of which neither seems to have complete control. Suddenly they surrender into each other’s arms, and the silhouettes fade into blackness...
...though she does pass it to her son who is almost completely undone by it. The characters are aware of their compulsions even as they execute them, and, like Keelin as she lives out Aisling's life after her, are doomed to act out roles they have no control over. Martin's characters are fully and enticingly written, emerging from the text like the heroes of an epic poem. Culminating in Aisling herself, who even in childhood seems to be a giantess, the figures spring hyper-real from this surreal journey narrative...