Word: jolt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...look now, but after shocking the airline and telecommunications industries, competition is about to jolt your sleepy electric company. Just ask Malcolm Buck, a software-support rep whose apartment in suburban Atlanta is wired for phone service, cable TV, high-speed Internet access, and security- and energy-management systems--all flowing through a single cable installed by the Southern Co., his local utility. Buck calls the electric-bill savings alone "pretty amazing...
...light-starved days of winter encroach on Boston, people yearn for a few glimmers of hope and brightness to illuminate the bleak season looming ahead. They seek an infusion of optimism and beauty to hearten themselves for the icy, dreary months approaching. Such an aesthetic jolt can be found at the invigorating weekly series of Bach cantatas performed at Emmanuel Church in Boston...
...Porter and Central Squares for a Big Mac, they'll definitely be willing to trek to the bottom of Memorial Hall. Kill the overpriced Mexican and pizza places; keep the popular sweet shop (although extend its hours) and the coffee shop with its needed caffeine jolt...
...credence to what some Christians see as the upshot of their doctrine of original sin: that people are born in need of a salvation gained through repentance. To put it in secular terms: so deeply hidden from natural introspection is our badness that moral reform requires a solid jolt of enlightenment, sharp and persistent awareness of our inherent baseness...
...Wurtmans were right, then a chemical that could generate a similar serotonin jolt might be highly effective for weight control. Wurtman began combing the medical literature for such a substance and discovered that the French pharmaceutical company Servier had discovered one called fenfluramine. "We tested it," he says, "and we found that it worked in selectively suppressing carbohydrate overeating...