Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard has been relatively prank-free in recent years. While students at Cornell impale pumpkins on church towers and techies at MIT place police cars on high domes, we are content to go about our lives in routine fashion, not as willing to spend time conceiving, planning and executing a quality prank. Pranking has become a lost...
...fashion to turn each new star into a savior? I suspect this has something to do with the frenzy of millennial predictions, spawned by the strike, of the death of baseball. None of these predictions have come true, of course, but nevertheless the attitude lingers that baseball is in deep trouble and needs the Herculean feats of McGwires and Ripkens to keep from teetering into oblivion. This is a myth. Suggesting that baseball needs saviors is to suggest it is in a worse state than it actually is, and only further perpetuates the myth...
Whisper it low -- bipartisanship is coming back in fashion. Just when Capitol Hill looked as if it couldn't get any more riven over the Clinton impeachment process, the Republican leadership has made a number of concessions to disgruntled Democrats -- and a tiny knot of centrist lawmakers from both sides of the highly partisan House Judiciary Committee are making a show, at least, of working together...
Once the preserve of business users, mobile phones have become an everyday consumer appliance--even a fashion accessory. Alcatel claims to have taken 10% of the world phone market with a cheap handset available in rainbow colors that appeal to women. The marriage of prepaid calling cards and cheap mobile phones has made markets in Italy, Ireland and Portugal grow nearly 38% a year because there is no subscription fee or phone bill at the end of the month. In Israel some 200,000 units of a phone known as the Mango, which can call only one number, have been...
...terror bombings against the U.S. embassies in Africa unacceptable [NATION, Sept. 7]? I thought the only way to deal with terrorism was through international agreements and diplomacy. I thought only terrorists used violence to reach their goals. But I was wrong, so wrong. And by the way, in what fashion did he think terrorists would respond? How else but with new bombings? When is the violence going to stop? Who is going to stop the vendettas? HARRIETH LUNDBERG, 17 Kvaloysletta, Norway...