Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...obvious answer is to give kids and parents some hint about the content of the games they see on store shelves. That would both warn consumers away from potentially offensive games and reassure them about the wholesomeness of others. In fact, Williams chaired a committee of the Software Publishers Association that considered a system of rating computer games akin to the way movies are classified. But software publishers are noted for their independence, and they could not reach a consensus. The best they could do was to urge members to describe clearly on the package what appears on the disk...
...Parliament a check for $500,000, made out to a British police association, but London sent it back. Last month, trying to repair relations with the U.S., the Libyan leader sent President Bush an elaborate invitation to his gala opening of the Great Man-Made River project. No reply. Hint: try renouncing terrorism...
...disease. Practitioners tend to discuss a patient's entire life-style, emphasizing stress reduction, a healthful diet, exercise and maybe even a change in work habits. Patients love it, especially after experiencing the sometimes narrow approach of medical specialists, who may thoroughly examine a body part without a hint of interest in the human being...
Above a glistening ice pack in the Bering Sea, a helicopter stalks a polar bear, following paw prints in the snow. The bear suddenly appears as a hint of movement, white against white, padding its way across the ice. The helicopter descends, hovering over the frightened creature, and a shotgun slides out the window, firing a tranquilizer dart into the massive fur-covered rump. Minutes pass. The bear shows no effects. The helicopter drops for a second shot. This time the bear stands its ground, and the pilot, fearing the animal is about to lunge for the aircraft, abruptly noses...
White House Soviet experts say the "amorality of communism" continued to bedevil Presidents up until Gorbachev took power. The first hint of change came when British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1984 signaled to Reagan that Gorbachev seemed realistic and trustworthy. If whatever Soviet entity survives this upheaval embraces the human values of democracy, it will, in the view of former Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger, "make it easier emotionally and conceptually for us, but it won't be any easier in terms of the number of problems." That's gain enough...