Word: elasticizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ball's dizzy redhead with the elastic face and saucer eyes was the model for scores of comic TV females to follow. She and her show, moreover, helped define a still nascent medium. Before I Love Lucy, TV was feeling its way, adapting forms from other media. Live TV drama...
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...