Word: elasticized
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In the past decade there have been great advances in the treatment of impotence, which is now seen by most therapists, in most cases, as a physiological rather than a psychological problem, rejecting the medical establishment's long-held view. The word impotence itself, like "frigidity" for women, is considered...
The fact is that we're a desensitized country. No one winces at violent movies anymore, unless a dog is killed. No one is surprised when they open the paper and read about the latest case of genocide in a foreign country or a murder spree in our own. No...
But this may not be true. The prices of the products sold in the new stores will have to be competitive, given that consumers' demand for homogenous, substitutable goods is highly elastic. Therefore, the new stores will be forced to keep their prices competitive to target the local consumers' tastes...
Much of the problem stems from the elastic nature of sexual harassment itself, which is defined so expansively (it includes "unwanted advances" that create an "offensive working environment") that no one is quite sure what it means. After the court ordered the Jones case to proceed, President Clinton's lawyers...
Why? Maybe no one wants to be thought a moralist these days, but most people are moralists at heart; their standards might be flexible and forgiving, but they're not infinitely elastic. It is possible, and in the view of some people likely, that the tapes will be exposed as...