Word: failed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plates move is unclear, but scientists have some ideas. "The fault material may play a role," Linde says. "Porous rock containing water can move more smoothly than other rock. The pressure the plates are under can make a difference too; the higher the stress, the likelier the fault will fail suddenly...
...fundamental right should be up for grabs says something sad about America, or Americans. In an era in which "family values" becomes ever more of a buzzword, overwhelming support could be offered for such a blatantly discriminatory policy. The irony is that over 50 percent of heterosexual marriages fail and, as The New York Times pointed out, at least 20 of the voting senators have been divorced...
...major new competitor for all that cash appeared in bookstores this summer: the New Living Translation (Tyndale House; 1,289 pages; $19.99). It comes with an initial print order of 950,000, a $2.5 million promotional budget and a fail-safe, back-cover blurb from Billy Graham. The book is handsomely bound and printed and contains, at the end, a useful series of maps of biblical places. And anyone who remembers the King James will find some pretty startling things inside...
...Americans are to be kept around to work and pay taxes but lack those human qualities that would permit them to marry," wrote Steven M. Ferre, 32, a contract manager for a health-insurance firm in Washington. Ferre, who is gay and currently without a partner, has seen relationships fail because the logical next step--marriage--was not an option. "It's difficult to stay in a relationship if you can't get married," he says. "It becomes very easy to cut your losses and move...
...even Samuel Beckett, the Irish pessimist who was born on Good Friday--the 13th--and whose fondest artistic hope was to "fail better," might have smiled at the glory of it all. Beckett (1906-89) would have been 90 this year, and to celebrate his indelible mark on the modern spirit, the Gate Theatre of Dublin came to New York City's Lincoln Center with productions of all 19 works he wrote for the stage, from the full-length Waiting for Godot, Endgame and Happy Days to the 40-second Breath. (Another 13 pieces were composed for radio...