Word: drill
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...novel's narrator, Patrick Bateman, is in full graphic babble about his adventures as a serial killer. With knife and pistol, he dispatches pets, children, high-fashion colleagues and ragged beggars. These are only warm-ups for what the M.B.A. monster does to women with nail gun, power drill, chain saw and, in a scene that should cause the loudest uproar, a hungry rodent. Those who are interested in the gobbets can exercise their rights as free American consumers early next year -- that is if they are still interested after reading one of the tamer examples of Ellis' zombie prose...
...must build a relationship with the producing countries that will encourage them to ask the majors to come in and drill. Look at Vietnam. It's a hot area. Other multinationals are in there, but American companies can't do business there yet. In exchange for permission to drill, we can offer our expertise to a lot of undeveloped countries in extracting their big mineral reserves...
...Crimson's last Ivy League title season, 1987, its only league loss came against the Big Red, who utilized a juggling, tip-drill TD catch in the endzone in the last two minutes of the game to upset Harvard...
...hulking presence of a bulldozer and the incessant buzz of a power drill did not keep five year-old Daniel Neczypor from sampling the thrills at the nearly completed playground at the Cambridge Common yesterday afternoon...
...principal reason for this policy has been economy. Today's reservists are a far cry from the fat, lazy weekend warriors of legend. They pass the same physical tests as regulars, get the same sort of training, and drill with the same advanced equipment. Nonetheless, it costs only a third to half as much to pay, train and equip a reservist as it does a full-time soldier...