Word: heydays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That is exactly what she did, even as she slipped from public view. Madalyn Murray O'Hair's organizational and financial heyday occurred in the mid-'80s. Having worn out her welcome with authorities in Maryland, where she filed her original suit, and then Hawaii, she arrived in Austin in 1965 and established the Society of Separationists, later adding Atheist Centre in America and several satellite groups. By the late '80s, there were eight. Each had a five- or six-person board, and each board was dominated by Madalyn, Jon and Robin (she was Bill's daughter...
Sound farfetched? In fact, primitive versions of these self-created environments--known as role-playing games--have been a staple of the geeky sci-fi set since the heyday of Dungeons & Dragons in the 1970s. Computer networks make it easier for D&D enthusiasts to find one another and to create game sites that can support hundreds of players at once. The single most popular content area on the Games Channel, says Schick, is a role-playing game called Gemstone...
...across from the Post Office between Second and Third Streets look like a war zone. Where the sidewalks were, plywood planks support the braver pedestrians and piles of dirt and rubble spill out into the edges of the street. Seattle's fleet of mountain biking bicycle couriers have a heyday of dodging the construction runoff, but for most downtown traffic, the construction makes getting around that block an arduous task...
...increasingly competitive world of academic recruitment, an issue that was never a problem during the heyday of one-career families has come into focus as one of the most important challenges in recruiting new faculty members...
...years ago, they have spread rapidly throughout the New World. Honeybees typically pollinate 15% of the U.S.'s crops, but lately the bees have been hard hit. Already debilitated by a nasty mite infection, thousands of colonies were exterminated during last winter's unusually severe cold. During the honeybee heyday after World War II, the U.S. had nearly 6 million hives. Now there are less than half that many, and mites continue to plague the remaining colonies. "We are working desperately to produce resistant bee stocks," says Tom Linderer, who directs a honeybee breeding and genetics lab in Baton Rouge...