Word: frothed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Forget the freakish growth spurts of Amazon.com and Ebay -? the weirdest Internet stock of the moment is Broadcast.com. Even as a newborn the stock showed promise, setting a record for the biggest single-day gain of an IPO when it went public last July. When some of the froth settled back then, the CEO confidently said that he wanted the people who bought at the top on the first day to feel that they'd made a great investment. Boy, did they. MORE...
...contrast, Rwanda (average monthly income: less than $25) gets rivers clogged with corpses. America's wealth entitles its citizens to work themselves into a moral froth over office fellatio. America's vast First World privilege also means that its scandals are infinitely less dangerous to the man and woman in the street. America's samurai of opinion scream at one another on talk shows; political argument in Rwanda means a million people hacked to pieces by machetes...
Call the new sound coffeehouse pop. It has a comforting warmth, a topping of sugary froth, and it provides a kind of buzz, like sipping a cappuccino in a corner cafe. It is led, mostly, by female singer-songwriters, writing primarily from a feminist point of view. On her hit song Bitch, Meredith Brooks declares that she wants to "reclaim a word that had taken on a really derogatory meaning." But ideology or no, these women are unafraid to celebrate their own sensuality. On the inside flap of her album, Jewel poses in a sexy yellow swimsuit...
...indiscriminately bid up stocks of cloning companies. Shares of PPL Therapeutics of Edinburgh, which helped fund the sheep-cloning research, jumped 16% in a day. There have been some genuine commercial successes, such as Biogen Inc.'s drug Avonex, approved last year to treat multiple sclerosis. Still, a dangerous froth is forming. "During the next six months you're going to see quite a few disasters," predicts Evan Sturza of Sturza's Medical Investment Letter...
...overlying rock. As the ascending ooze climbs higher, the pressure on it is dramatically reduced, allowing gases trapped within to bubble out like carbonation in an opened bottle of soda. As this happens, the magma takes on a foamier consistency, increasing its speed and mobility. When this scalding froth rises high enough to make contact with subterranean water, the water flashes into steam, turning the whole hellish mix into a natural pressure cooker. Finally, the explosively pressurized magma blasts out of the earth in an eruption that can send rocks, ash and gases flying out at near supersonic speeds...