Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with X-Men plastic action figures. "He's kind of weird," says Alex, 11, of Fontana, Calif. "None of us play with X-Men anymore. We like PlayStation better." Toy-industry experts call this "age compression"--boys shunning G.I. Joe and girls dissing Barbie at ever younger ages in favor of computer games and sporting goods. And it is just one of the obstacles confronting Toys "R" Us as the nation's No. 1 retailer of playthings tries to get itself back on track...
...news media is being segmented in the same manner. Someone who wants, say, in-depth analysis of a piece of congressional legislation, knows to skip NBC News in favor of a more "high-brow" news source--a Web site devoted to his area of interest, PBS or "All Things Considered" on National Public Radio. Conversely, someone who wants to read salacious material about Elizabeth Taylor or Elvis can pick up a supermarket tabloid. These media outlets have been relegated to the margins, and hence have freed up the bulk of the media to what New Yorker editor David Remnick...
...first stop for the evening, however, the seven skipped final clubs altogether in favor of Sigma Chi. The fraternity is holding a party for its new inductees, but a majority of the group finds the small gathering largely disappointing...
...twentieth century was the judge of that debate, clearly it has rendered its judgment in favor of Croly. Or has it? Why, then, at the end of the century, is there such an incessantly growing literature on "the end of the age of the nation-state"? Why would Nelson Mandela pay tribute to Harvard, not as an American institution, but as one which "sees the world as its stage"? Why would he refer to himself more often as an African than as a South African? And why (on an infinitely more humble scale) would someone who had every opportunity...
...third game ended with a 15-13 decision in Harvard's favor, and Harvard finished the match off in the fourth game...