Word: corrections
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...proliferation of books, television programs, academic courses and corporate training seminars has also served to raise awareness. "Everyone talks the talk these days," says Lynn Povich, editor in chief of Working Woman. "It's politically correct." When the Pentagon rebuked Navy investigators for failing to take seriously the charges of women molested during the Tailhook convention, it reinforced the notion that men who still "don't get it" proceed at their peril. "The Navy cover-up didn't work," says Professor Mary Coombs of the University of Miami School of Law. "The old idea that women who claim harassment...
...convention. Quayle was too callow, some said. Too dumb, others suggested. Some experts estimate that his presence on the ticket in 1988 cost Bush as many as 3 percentage points in the popular vote. Since then, a series of flaps -- the great "potatoe" spelling bee, the anatomically correct doll that Quayle brought back from an official trip to Chile, the Murphy Brown "family values" dispute and a host of misstatements and misspoken lines -- only added to the popular view that Quayle was not ready for prime time. "Gore has written a book," says the Democrat's friend, outgoing Colorado Senator...
...Harmony and Skye, Tyler's friends, whose not-uncommon fear of dating strangers drives them to each other's arms because they've known each other since preschool days. Nor does Coupland tell the story of Daisy and her boyfriend Murray (also dreadlocked) searching in vain for politically correct employment. Coupland wants very much to be the voice of this generation, but he must understand that its stories are intriguing enough to stand on their own. He does not have to dance around hair gels and alternative music to tell them...
...multisensual media and artificial creatures so highly evolved they will seem as alive as dogs and cats. If even their most conservative projections come true, the next century may bring advances no less momentous than the Bomb, the Pill and the digital computer. Should the more radical predictions prove correct, our descendants may encounter technological upheavals that could make 20th century breakthroughs seem tame...
...science the demon that will enable man to destroy the planet and himself, we ask, or the means by which a new generation can correct its forebears' mistakes? Should we learn more about the brain and how it works? What if that leads to chilling discoveries about mind control? Should humans live longer? Then the whole world will face the problem now besetting industrial nations of ever more retirees consuming rather than producing wealth. As the coming century or two brings the emergence of a world middle class, where do we commit the resources of science and medicine -- to marginal...