Word: doughnuts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...layers, leaving one side attached, and carefully lifted the flap of tissue out of the way. In nearsighted patients, an invisible beam of laser light then trimmed away layers of tissue from the center of the cornea, producing a flatter curve. In farsighted patients, the beam scooped out a doughnut-shaped ring that resulted in a steeper curve. Then the doctors lifted the flap back into place. After a few minutes of drying, it rebonded with the rest of the cornea. Because tissue destruction is minimal, there's little healing and much less pain. Patients see clearly almost immediately after...
...marine abundance. Competition among countries for the rights to fish certain sectors of the sea is already fierce and could turn violent, as it has elsewhere in the world. The Russians have severely depleted fish stocks in their zone, and the international area open to all boats, called the Doughnut Hole, has been nearly stripped of commercial fish...
Admitting that they went into the jobrelatively "clueless," Howard Georgi said he feltthe little things in the House--like Masters' openhouses and the House's annual doughnut bash--madethe year especially worth while...
Bill Bradley's leather shoes are cracked, and his suit and tie--as he makes a point of telling me at a doughnut shop in Claremont, near the Vermont border--are suffering through their second straight campaign day. For the former New Jersey Senator, an insurgent trying to grab the Democratic nomination from Al Gore, genteel shabbiness signifies authenticity. Bradley wants you to know he's got bigger things--purer things--on his mind, and the doughnut shop is packed with people who have come to hear about them (and a few who just want coffee and crullers). Ten months...
...well on the stump; after his thoughtful speech at the state party convention in Manchester, an internist named Dick Tartow, 67, who had volunteered for Gore just two weeks before, yanked off his GORE 2000 button and replaced it with one that said BRADLEY FOR PRESIDENT. And at the doughnut shop, state representative Amy Robb-Theroux, 34, is also having second thoughts about working for Gore. "People my age don't know much about Bradley," she says, "but I'd heard wonderful things, so I came to find out more. And I'm impressed...