Word: glue
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...computer age. It embraces, in spirit at least, not just the nearest thirtysomething hacker hunched over his terminal but also nose-ringed twentysomethings gathered at clandestine RAVES, teenagers who feel about the Macintosh computer the way their parents felt about Apple Records, and even preadolescent vidkids fused like Krazy Glue to their Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis games -- the training wheels of cyberpunk. Obsessed with technology, especially technology that is just beyond their reach (like BRAIN IMPLANTS), the cyberpunks are future oriented to a fault. They already have one foot in the 21st century, and time is on their side...
Continuing in a long-tradition of solid Saint goaltending, Brady Giroux has been the glue for this team. The Franklin, Vt. native leads the ECAC with a 1.80 goals against average and a 5-0-0 record...
...every society," said John Winthrop, "to be knit together by some covenant." But what kind of covenant? Winthrop's was based on obedience to a Calvinist God, which is not something Clinton is likely to call on. This is where familiarity comes in, to provide the needed emotional glue...
Except for the sabotage of 12 readers with glue at the beginning of the year, the system has suffered no major glitches, according to Harvard Police Chief Paul E. Johnson...
Bush's defeat only deepens the fissures in the party. Lacking the anticommunism and prosperity glue that united them for the past 25 years, conservatives and moderates are certain to fight more fiercely over such already contentious issues as taxes, spending, deficits, abortion rights -- and ultimately over the Grand Old Party's soul. "It's going to be a typical Republican war," says Wayne Berman, a senior adviser to the Bush campaign. "It will be no-holds-barred, hand-to-hand combat for at least a year...