Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With the influence of the consulting apparatus, it's not hard to see how the modern political machine can make idealism chimerical--a sad social construct. We all know this: For all the retail politics, modern campaigns are about 1980s buzzwords like organization and strategy--and 1990s buzzwords like synergy and Internet...
Often in medicine, before you can find out how to destroy the enemy, you first need to know how to build it. And so it came as important news on Thursday when the science journal Nature revealed that a team of researchers had succeeded for the first time in turning a normal human cell into a cancerous cell through genetic alterations in the laboratory. The long-sought process involved inserting three genes, one that causes cells to grow relentlessly, another that keeps them from aging, and a third that blocks growth-stopping signals...
...ratings and ad bucks that big broadcasters seek. "They think about the market," says Screen Actors Guild president Richard Masur, "and you have to address them in those terms." But a scarcity of minority executives and the pigeonholing of minority writers don't help. "Programmers and executives know Latinos only as people they see in their kitchens and gardens," remarks Latina TV writer Julie Friedgen...
...them to weddings, Caribbean vacations and weekends in the country. But I'm sick of grainy pictures that should have been great and puny flashes that make a walk in the woods look like a midnight stroll. And after paying $15 a pop for that many disposables, I'm know I'm not saving any money...
...Eleanor Roosevelt of Cook's portrait--vulnerable, irritating, indefatigable, self-righteous, almost unthinkably generous--is not an entirely new version of the woman we know, but a more complete one. E.R. had an insufferable side; she also possessed an imaginative humanity that no First Lady--and no President--has matched since then...