Word: junking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...since I was old enough to stand up straight, I've been stepping onto muddy fields around this time of year. I played baseball through high school, a good-fielding, seldom-hitting infielder who ran the bases well and could occasionally be called on to throw a variety of junk ball pitches at the opposition...
KENNEDY KIDS Complaints about selling Camelot would sit better had they not unloaded Mom's junk...
...World War II G.I. ever hated Spam canned meat as much as Netizens detest its contemporary namesake. Unsolicited junk E-mail now accounts for 10% of all Internet traffic and up to 30% of the 26 million daily messages on America Online. Because spammers are such a fast-moving target--using constantly changing bogus return addresses--their stuff is almost impossible to stamp out. But help is on the way. Sendmail Inc., makers of the most popular E-mail-routing software, says its new version has a built-in antispam tool kit that includes a virtually spamproof address verifier...
...cost, and parents chip in one-third. The public school district in Beaufort, S.C., leased laptops to 300 students last year, and after a swell of parent demands, expanded the program this fall to 1,000. In Texas, state-school-board president Jack Christie is pushing a proposal to junk textbooks and outfit 4 million students with portable computers complete with Internet access and a CD-ROM drive. He hasn't converted everyone yet, but vows it's "just a matter of time." Says Christie: "There are pockets of resistance--in the same way that people opposed the space program...
...game show in development that was looking for contestants (no, not "Singled Out"). It was a quiz show called "Idiot Savants," which tested players' academic and pop culture knowledge in exchange for valuable merchandise (no cash prizes, unfortunately). The opportunity to benefit from the sheer mass of the junk I had stuffed into my head over the years snared me easily...