Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quietly reopened the case in May 1992. But it was only after the airing of a local TV report on NAMBLA featuring an unrepentant Melzer that Stancik recommended Melzer be fired. If that happens, says the teacher, he will sue. And he may have a case that courts will entertain. In an administrative hearing, a board of education panel will examine Melzer's conduct. Until then he works a nonteaching job reviewing the science curriculums for technical schools...
However, the group did entertain thepossibility of sitting-in on Mansfield's classesonce he returns from a year leave...
...must entertain the possibility that any increase will cause serious and violent effects on weather patterns," McElroy said...
...blowing. "Underachievement [is] suddenly fashionable," Newsweek laments. But in this age, who's got a better shot at changing the world: one more addition to a horde of hungry litigators, or a writer whose vignette for "The Simpsons" will be watched and repeated by millions? "Someone has to entertain America," declared one Harvard man. Ah, duty...
John and Shelly Bain already have a pretty good idea of what that's like. Almost every night after dinner, instead of clicking on their TV set and waiting to be entertained, they sit down at their computers and entertain themselves. Dialing a local access number from their San Francisco living room, they enter the virtual amusement park of the ImagiNation Network, a combination Las Vegas, Nintendo and Sunday-afternoon social club, where they can compete against fellow computer users in everything from bridge and blackjack to medieval role-playing fantasies...