Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...especially with Noeth and Kelly in the house, again at Clarkson your friendly referees. (Poster children for Instant Replay in the ECAC? As the zebras themselves love to say, "You make the call...
Sodano is, in effect, the Pope's Prime Minister and the only curial official with instant access to John Paul. But there are other Cardinals the Pope confers with regularly. Every Friday evening, the Pontiff meets with Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, 67, the austere German theologian whose title is prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (once known as the Holy Office). "Ratzinger is a theologian and John Paul is a philosopher, but they basically see eye to eye," says a veteran Vaticanologist. The two became friends at the Second Vatican Council, when both were young bishops...
...boggle factor was most intense in Time Warner's Future Services exhibit, where more than a dozen potential services were on display -- from sports on demand to an instant medical-checkup service. In one such service, rock musician Todd Rundgren showed off his interactive music system, which allows customers to select listening choices by artist, style, tempo or mood. In another, ShopperVision demonstrated its "virtual" supermarket, where customers can browse 3-D aisles, choose among 20,000 kinds of packaged goods and order for same-day delivery...
Some stores set a limit of one to a customer as stocks ran low; others just filled fat order books after they ran out on the first day. This brassiere from Sara Lee Foundations was an instant sensation, especially with rapidly aging baby boomers, when it appeared in department stores. A moderately priced push-up model, with several strategically placed pads to enhance shape, the Wonderbra is credited with working miracles: creating drop-dead cleavage even while defying gravity...
...every third episode. Beyond that, the freewheeling way the starship broke the constraints of time and space was a testament to unlimited human possibilities. Hundreds of light- years could be traversed in minutes (just accelerate to "warp factor"); crew members could be transported from place to place in an instant ("Beam me up, Scotty"). Time travel was a particular Star Trek favorite; characters were often shuttling back and forth to the past, trying to rectify mistakes of history and avoid disasters of the future. Talk about power trips...