Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this year. Her worst failing may have been passing along her self-destructive traits to most of her offspring; she was even capable of recruiting one of her daughters into prostitution at age 11. Of her eight children by six different fathers, only two managed to escape to the mainstream world, through the intervention of teachers and social workers. But to Cunningham, stealing, whoring and using drugs were merely survival. Daughter of an abusive mother, and a mother herself at 14, Cunningham almost inevitably never learned to read or write, much less acquire the skills--or personal habits--that would...
...patent medicine--an interesting compound being sold as a cure-all on the basis of the flimsiest scientific evidence. Like human-growth hormone and melatonin, two other drugs being promoted as antiaging compounds, DHEA is a medically active chemical with real value that has piqued the interest of mainstream scientists. But the claims that surround DHEA--that it can restore sexual vigor, prevent cancer and heart disease, and add decades to your life--run far ahead of the science...
...born in New Haven, Connecticut, to a pair of New Yorkers who did not want to give me a more ordinary American name like Jennifer or Jessica--names by which I now call almost all my female friends. As my parents intended, my name sets me apart from the mainstream. There has never been another Chana in my class (although a Harvard classmate spells it Hanna). This uniqueness made it harder to blend in when I was a preteen and wanted to disappear into a crowd. But now that I'm older and value individuality, I appreciate the merits...
...what he believed and, even worse, seemed powerless to achieve what he wanted even when he knew what it was. To win over the party's most conservative activists--and it is they who largely controlled the nomination process--Dole bent himself out of shape. As a moderate, mainstream Republican in the mold of his hero, Dwight Eisenhower, Dole never became comfortable with his own campaign's core themes and strategy, the tactics and messages designed by his professional handlers that he felt obliged to follow. "I'd been beaten before, and you have to learn from the people...
...campaign changed that. While President Clinton was hurt early in his Administration by his association with the gays-in-the-military issue, by 1996 he was seen as being in the American mainstream. While many in the media derided his emphasis on what they regarded as small-bore issues like school uniforms, curfews and expanding family leave, our surveys showed that voters were frequently more interested in these issues than in Travelgate and Filegate...