Word: lande
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...account is a matter of great dispute, one likely to land the President's case in an Arkansas courtroom in May. But in truth the tangle of laws currently defining sexual harassment is so jumbled that even if everyone could agree on the facts, it's simply impossible to predict the outcome of a case like Jones v. Clinton. Just 25 years ago, sexual harassment was considered a radical-fringe by-product of feminist theory. Today it's embedded in multiple Supreme Court decisions (three more are expected before July), thousands of corporate policies and a host of lower-court...
...were suffering in silence,' Nelson said. "[Some students on the committee] tried to point out that a more accurate way to think about it was that one out of every four rooms was a drinking room. It's far more reasonable to expect that birds of a feather will land in the same room...
When the Combat Zone was first designated as the city's headquarters for immoral pursuits in 1974, it was "sort of a no man's land" separated from most of the city by stretches of barren lots, according to Kelly Quinn, spokesperson...
...devices came out, Dubinsky recalls, "we said, 'Uh-oh, it's all over for us now.'" But consumers weren't as interested in what came to be known as "tweeners"--computers that are neither full-featured laptops nor true handheld pocket devices. "They were sort of in never-never land," she says. By the end of 1997, Palm had grabbed two-thirds of the market for handheld devices, and those running on WinCE 1.0 were far behind...
...gene therapy have had to rely on viruses to do their heavy lifting. Doctors would put whatever snatches of DNA they wanted to change into the viruses and then infect their patients with millions of them, hoping that some would hit the target. Unfortunately, the DNA patches would rarely land where they were supposed to, and even when they did, they usually fell out within weeks. A permanent genetic fix always seemed maddeningly out of reach...