Word: icon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Other students attended the speech simply to see an American icon...
...what you will about Bill Gates--the man knows when to swallow hard and cut a deal. At first blush, the abrupt announcement last week that Microsoft had settled one round of its continuing dispute with the Federal Government--by agreeing to let PC makers remove the icon for the company's Web browser, Internet Explorer, from their machines' desktops--looked like abject capitulation. But as usual, the closer you look, the craftier the CEO's reasoning seems...
...Pope too has his inner sanctum, a tiny private chapel off his sparsely decorated bedroom, which is adorned with a large bronze crucifix and a small icon of the "Black Madonna" of Czestochowa, symbol of Polish nationalism. Each morning and evening he privately speaks to God there, communing with his one true superior to shape the mission he too has pursued with relentless single-mindedness for 20 years: Go forth and spread the word...
Unknown, perhaps, but not exactly a surprise. Glenn has been openly lobbying for the opportunity to return to space since he first pitched the idea to NASA administrator Dan Goldin two years ago. The Senator stressed that what he was proposing was not merely a joyride for a national icon but a unique opportunity to study the science of aging. In his 24 years in the Senate, Glenn has distinguished himself as a champion of the elderly and something of a lay scholar on the biology of senescence. It has not escaped his notice that some of the changes...
...staff debated hundreds of titles and settled on "Fifteen Minutes," recalling pop-culture icon Andy Warhol's famous saying, "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes...