Word: giant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Olivia inquired as to the state of her lover's new bed. I had obviously overestimated B.C.'s Catholicism and underestimated the pervasiveness of potent American sexuality. Such flagrant sexual intimacy has come to disturb every aspect of life here, in the process turning the college bar into a giant back seat; moving X rated movies to the R section, likening Madonna to Marilyn. Our culture has come to reflect our sex life as an exhibitionist porn-show...
...just slack demand but also the rising costs of paper and postage this year. L.L. Bean, which experienced a $25 million jump in such expenses, will launch television commercials for the first time in its 83-year history this Christmas to help promote its 800 number. Rival catalog giant Lands' End plans to resist the industry price-cutting trend by holding its prices level with those of last year and offering extras such as free gift boxes and monograms. Says Lands' End president Michael Smith: "If you're selling computers or electronics, you're doing very well this year...
...THOSE FEW SOULS ON the planet who haven't yet wrestled with giant computer-operating systems like Microsoft's Windows 95, memory compression probably sounds like something that starts to set in around the fourth margarita. To the rest of the computer-using public, though, it sounds like a dream come true. Imagine: instead of shelling out hundreds of dollars to feed your system's insatiable appetite for memory, you simply run a $30 program that squeezes the necessary storage space out of your existing chips, instantly increasing their effective capacity by a factor of two or more...
...odds, Syncronys still has one group of loyal supporters: those legions of customers who continue to report their satisfaction with SoftRAM 95. And the indomitable Poertner remains unbowed. He can be seen regularly on the Internet fiercely debating his critics. He also turned up last week at the giant Comdex computer trade show in Las Vegas to announce new versions of SoftRAM, including one for the Macintosh...
Bahcall has used the telescope to take pictures of quasars, starlike objects so bright they can be seen halfway across the universe. Most theorists think quasars are intimately related to giant black holes like the one Ford found; presumably their intense light comes from gas compressed with such force that it explodes in bright bursts of energy. That implies that every quasar should have a galaxy around it, but in several cases Bahcall found no clear evidence of one. "This," he said when he announced his observations, "is a giant leap backward in our understanding of quasars...