Word: elasticizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
TIME: "The revolution" has become an amazingly elastic term these days. Doesn't the term become hollow?
Does that mean it can't go on? That stocks must finally tumble in 1998? No. Perhaps the market's bounds will keep stretching like the elastic belt on your holiday trousers. But it does suggest that the risk of a retraction is more acute. A stiff sell-off last...
The possible (mis) use of Title IX to close down a school whose mission to help young women become "self-confident, self-reliant, independent learners" parallels the motivating logic of Title IX-to ensure that women have the opportunity to become such self-confident and self-reliant people, as men...
Inning two, Boise: In the middle of the inning, while the teams switch, my mom's co-worker uses an elastic slingshot to get a water balloon into a hot tub being pulled around the field by a pickup truck. She wins the tub. We cheer. The Hawks get on...