Word: instants
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nice small town, right? One with sidewalks, neighbors waving from their porches and a bustling central square within biking distance of your house? Trouble is, despite the growth of telecommuting, most jobs are still in cities and suburbs. That's why the late-'80s experiment of building cute little instant towns in places like Seaside, Fla., never really caught on: many of the communities were too far from major job centers. So now developers are chasing a new fashion. Rather than offer an escape from the suburbs, they're struggling to reinvent them by building cute little instant towns near...
...Last November the Brady law's "permanent" provisions kicked in, requiring dealers to run the identity of every buyer through the FBI's National Instant Check System or a comparable state system. As of July 14, the FBI's system alone had denied 50,416 attempted purchases...
Time was when the dread moment of learning how popular you were came only with the delivery of birthday or Valentine's Day cards. Now every day is judgment day, thanks to instant messaging and the in-your-face presence of its address book (the "buddy list") on computer desktops. The software offers real-time chat with friends, family or co-workers who are online, as most now seem to be. Instant messaging, or IM, in fact, handles more missives each day than the U.S. Postal Service. Besides relying on it to evaluate their popularity levels, teenagers...
...sister. Delbert and Kay were after nothing more than a small-town stake in a Central Valley farm community, Delbert punching a clock as a mechanic, Kay grabbing whatever service jobs she could find. It wasn't easy or grand, but it was a life, and in an instant, it was gone...
...some extra money ? ought to be our first priority. They?re absolutely right. And the polls indicate that people also think that Bill Clinton is the man to do it for them. (This impression, most likely, is the result of countless Clinton speeches about irresponsible "instant gratification" on the Republican side and safe, sane saving for the future by your friends at the White House.) Clinton keeps saying only he can save Medicare and Social Security; the Republicans say they can save the sacred cows and pay for a tax cut, and still keep the debt shrinking and the budget...