Word: idea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Grantham isn't sure why lorazepam suddenly got so expensive, and neither are many of the patients whose doctors write more than 18 million prescriptions for the drug each year. But the Federal Trade Commission in Washington thinks it has a pretty good idea. The agency, joined by more than 30 states, recently accused Mylan Laboratories of Pittsburgh, Pa., and its suppliers of illegally tying up chemical feed-stocks used to make the drug. With control of the ingredients in hand, the FTC charged, Mylan could demand whatever price it wanted for the finished product. The FTC is now trying...
...Egypt she was Sekhmet, portrayed as a lioness whose "mane smoked with fire [and whose] countenance glowed like the sun." Images of goddesses tell us nothing about the role of actual women, but they do suggest that about 3,000 years ago, at the dawn of human civilization, the idea of the fearsome huntress, the woman predator, generated no snickers among the pious...
...discovers that he really loved his mother too. If you can get past the notion that Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney's 1984 novel about a Manhattan yuppie on a downward spiral, is a time capsule whose time has passed, it's actually not a bad idea for a musical...
Researchers aren't sure why chemotherapy boosts the effectiveness of radiation, though they have an idea. Radiation damages the DNA found in cancer cells. But all cells, including cancer cells, contain enzymes that repair broken DNA. Perhaps the drugs used in chemotherapy block the cellular repairmen from doing their job. The damaged DNA never gets fixed, and the cancer cells...
...David, and practitioner of the most exalted kind of art, the art that interpreted myth and history to an educated audience. (He never painted a still life and rarely did landscapes except as background to human figures.) But classicism means different things to different artists, and we need an idea of what it meant to him. It had very little to do with the rendition of abstractly idealized form, derived from Greco-Roman statuary. Other and lesser artists who had been through David's teaching studio believed it did, and had fine theories to support their belief. But Ingres...