Word: junking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...earliest days of Harvard, New England citizens generally dumped debris just outside their back doors, he says. "The backyard tended to be where people threw away their junk. They literally tossed it away...
...were it not for the fact that the author is clearly an equal- opportunity disdainer. New Zealanders are shabby and provincial, he complains. Aussies are rude, foulmouthed and drink too much. Tongans are lazy, quarrelsome and mean to their children. Samoans are greedy, hostile and obese, perhaps because their junk-food diet consists mostly of "Cheez Balls" and corned beef saturated with hippo fat. (Did their liking for the latter, Theroux wonders, derive from their ancestors' enjoyment of "long pig" -- that is, human flesh?) And almost everywhere he found God-swanking missionaries, usually Mormons or Methodists, who seemed mesmerized...
Once upon a time, in the heyday of junk bonds and booming real estate markets, big money developers sank fortunes into gleaming urban skyscrapers that stood as proud tributes to an age of avarice. Today a dismal economy has left many of these office towers half full and their developers slumping toward insolvency. Chief among them is Olympia & York, which made a grim return engagement in bankruptcy court last week, this time in Britain. The Canadian real estate giant sought protection from creditors of its London Canary Wharf project. No expense had been spared in this spectacular 71-acre building...
Splicing removes the "junk" segments, calledintrons, which are noncoding sequences...
VISITORS TO MOSCOW this summer need not worry about finding their way around. From Northern Cartographic in Burlington, Vt., comes this user-friendly tourist map that identifies all rechristened streets and landmarks. It even , directs homesick junk foodies to McDonald's. Where did such meticulous accuracy come from? From "redrawn" CIA maps...