Word: harmlessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...before it starts. Some, like General Motors and Wal-Mart, have instituted zero-tolerance policies banning just about any speech or conduct with sexual undertones, like sending E-mail with a naughty Web address to a co-worker, which not so long ago would have been deemed not just harmless but constitutionally protected. While it's rare for nonthreatening behavior to be ruled harassment, it happens. In 1993 the University of Nebraska forced a grad student to remove from his desk a picture of his bikini-clad wife after two fellow students complained that the photo violated the school...
Dartboard has become increasingly disturbed by the presence of a small, pink clay pot situated on a table in the Currier House dining hall. Though the flowerpot in and of itself is likely harmless, its contents are posing existential dilemmas to more than one Currierite...
...Harmless snootiness, if you ask me. And auctions can be a lot of fun, which is why they have lasted. But they can also be tasteless and stupid, and revealing of us. When we get all excited about the idea of owning a love letter from a duchess to a duke, we ought to be embarrassed; it simply shows us up as dirty little snoops...
...unbuckled atmosphere in which sex, if not exactly a certainty, is not exactly unthinkable. When he went to the White House in 1993 as one of the youngest American Presidents ever, Clinton attracted a flock of aides and interns just out of college: males who regarded mild flirtation as harmless fun, females who seemed to enjoy the attention. And whatever lessons he drew from the Gennifer Flowers embarrassment, Clinton has never felt it necessary to pretend that good-looking women are beyond his notice. Within the first months of his first term, the West Wing was crammed with them, pretty...
...Seed really worthy of all this attention, or should he be dismissed as harmless? TIME magazine has unearthed evidence that human cloning is not Seed's first money-seeking crusade ? former neighbor Barbara Moline says she was invited to invest $75,000 in a Seed scheme to cure AIDS. "He started conversations by telling you he deserved to be a Nobel prizewinner," Moline remembers. Not to mention that he's a physicist rather than a physician, and has no embryology experience. But lawmakers know a good enemy when they see one, and as long as he plays the mad scientist...