Word: faints
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Microsoft in a long and costly battle that many legal scholars suspect he will have a tough time winning. Faced with the uneasy prospect of trying to prove consumer harm by a company that has helped make PCs better and cheaper, Klein must have held out at least faint hopes that Gates would renounce enough of his most egregious practices to let them both declare victory and go home. Unfortunately for all concerned (with the exception of Microsoft enemies like Netscape and Sun Microsystems, whose stock prices should rise with delight at their rival's newly bogged-down circumstance...
...breath of air. Most of them were portraits--some of fellow artists (Miro, the composer Edgard Varese), others of show-biz celebrities like Josephine Baker or the great honky-tonk comedian Jimmy Durante, whose famed nose, translated into wire profile, becomes a fearsome proboscis. They were witty, vital (the faint quivering of the wire from room vibration gave them an odd subliminal life) and completely without pretension. They were also, clearly, sculpture and not toys. Yet they would hardly be more than footnotes in the modernist story but for what happened later...
...BLACKOUTS Viagra can trigger sudden drops in blood pressure, and there is a risk that men who take it in combination with nitroglycerin or other antihypertensive drugs could faint or go into shock...
...means taking a bigger risk. Home mortgages, for example, are fairly riskless propositions for lenders, but the reward is tiny--perhaps 6% a year in interest payments. On the other hand, lending money to the government of Malaysia is fairly lucrative, but it is not an investment for the faint of heart--the double-digit interest rate brings with it risks of a devaluation, a government coup or an outright default...
When he casually draped his arm over her, other students began to take notice. But when he progressed to neck-nibbling and kissing, a faint giggle arose from the balcony. We've heard of public displays of affection. We've even witnessed some pretty egregious cases. But we've never seen anyone getting it on in clear view of over 800 people and a world-renowned professor...