Word: frayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plan, which begins next year, will provide standard definitions for such descriptive terms as high-fiber, low fat and light and certify health claims listed on product packages. This phase will also address the tricks associated with serving size. Until the federal agency jumped into the fray, private physicians and nutritionists had been fighting a lonely rearguard action in this realm of superslim slivers and oversize wedges. A manufacturer wishing to boost the nutrient value of a cereal, for example, simply bases the label on an oversize portion. If low calories are the object, the portion becomes minuscule. Take...
...police responded whenever an alarm shrieked wolf, they would waste time and taxpayers' money, and dull their own crime-fighting reflexes. The endless ululations of alarms in big cities fray people's nerves, inure them to noise and, on a deeper level, undermine their civic morale, their subliminal expectations. Crime, no crime -- the distinction vanishes in undifferentiated wailing and rage. The machine screams. The quality of life within earshot dies a little more...
...acrimonious because the Guard, the reserves and the regular armed forces are all fighting for a share of a defense budget that will shrink 20% during the next four years. The Guard's defenders accuse the Department of Defense of having kept the Guard and reserves out of the fray so that regular units could get more than a fair share of future appropriations. "The Pentagon took the position that they simply weren't going to use combat reserves," says Mississippi Democrat G.V. ("Sonny") Montgomery, the reserves' leading champion in the House. "That's not the Total Force concept Congress...
...flags quickly replaced the war as Campus Issue Numero Uno. President Derek C. Bok even joined the fray, affirming the students' right to free expression but urging them to respect the offended sensibilities of members of their community...
Some, including Gallagher, interpreted the club's inaction as a formal rejection of the party's nominated candidate. Gallagher jumped into the fray and succeeded in ruffling not a few feathers in the club. "I thought he was a Republican until the day I heard he was going to organize for Silber," Harmon, then president of the Democratic Club, says. "We talked to Colin and some of the students for Silber about working within the Club. They didn't say no, but they didn't really do it either...