Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Their enthusiasm makes some sense. Smart highways, with their mechanized legions of cars racing along in perfect, synchronized formation, should have fewer accidents and produce less pollution than today's freewheeling freeways. And it may be cheaper to make today's highways smart enough to carry heavier traffic loads than to build new railroads or monorails from scratch...
...limited in just how far it can go to control the Iraqi leader. Thompson says that while the U.S. will most likely step up its response, it does not want to launch too strong an attack out of fear it won't deter Saddam. "If you go to some heavier response and Saddam doesn't respond the way you like, the question is when do you stop," Thompson says. "You can highlight your impotence if you ratchet up worry and he doesn't get the message." Scot Woods...
...Yeltsin has the physical and mental stamina to keep that high-risk approach going. "Yeltsin is always capable of something unexpected," says Anatoli Sobchak, the former mayor of St. Petersburg. "He seems to have lost all his strength and then he recuperates." But each recuperation appears to exact a heavier toll, and bouts of hyperactivity are followed by longer and longer periods of inaction and illness. That is no long-term prescription for keeping control of a country as unruly as Russia today...
Except in her music. Her first album, Toni Braxton, produced by R.-and-B. hitmakers Antonio ("L.A.") Reid and Kenny ("Babyface") Edmonds, swam against the tide. While other R.-and-B. singers were getting louder, brasher, naughtier, Braxton's songs were slower, heavier, laden with emotion. And they had an attitude. Her first hit, Love Shoulda Brought You Home, admonished a man who had been staying out too late; the song Best Friend (which Braxton co-wrote) is a barbed note to a boyfriend who had an affair with his lover's best friend...
...U.S.C. pool, visual memory kicked in, and it was easy to tell which of the swimmers churning 50-m lengths at three-quarter speed was Evans. But she's taller now by a couple of inches--that was clear as she eased out of the pool--and heavier by nearly 20 lbs. of hydrodynamic muscle. This is a change in body mass from waiflike to slim, but it explains why Evans has competed unsuccessfully for so many years against an elusive sprite named Janet...