Word: jumbo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...maybe, as its detractors contend, TT is a form of New Age mumbo jumbo, a no-touch laying on of hands that has no legitimate place in medicine. Leading the attack is Rocky Mountain Skeptics, a group of scientists and other professionals based in Boulder, Colorado, who investigate what they call "pseudo science." Its president, computer specialist Bela Scheiber, charges that TT is "paranormal and religious activity masquerading as science...
Where did all this mumbo-jumbo about "false teachings" come from? I could see it now: Immorality 10a. An introduction to corruption, crime, debauchery, avarice and murder. Readings from "gangsta rap" lyrics, the Marquis de Sade, Adolf Hitler, required of concentrators...
...sizes and nationalities to venture farther from port than ever before. Sonar and radar helped locate the fish wherever they were hiding. Satellite-navigation systems let ships return over and over to prime spots. Newly built "factory ships" deployed nets so huge that they could swallow 12 jumbo jets in a single gulp. Led by the U.S., many countries made waters up to 200 miles from their shores off limits to foreign boats. But as soon as intruding vessels drew farther out to sea, domestic fleets expanded to take advantage of reduced competition...
Those were the good old days, when TV signals came over the air and telephone calls came over wire. I remember when we used to say 500 channels were plenty, who needed digital this, two-way that, broadband switching and all that interactive mumbo jumbo? But once people got used to the idea of dialing their TVs like telephones and ordering up shows from the storage disks, things just took...
...hunger. The U.C., if equipped properly, could meet and profit from this demand for food. And Dead-heads' tastes are simple. They only desire plenty of peanut butter & jelly sandwiches, bagels with cream cheese, and lots of orange juice; they're here to listen, not to eat. With a jumbo-sized trip to the supermarket and a small amount of preparation, the U.C. could enlarge its coffers substantially and alliviate a massive case of the munchies in one fell swoop...