Word: manifestation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speedup policy at NASA," says Jerome Lederer, a former director of the space agency's office of manned flight safety, adding, "There are signs that complacency may have set in, and that is not good for safety." Insisted a NASA engineer: "We are being driven by a launch manifest, not hardware capability or concerns about anything else." NASA has in fact been pushing its contractors for faster delivery of shuttle components, and many of these companies have been pressing their employees into working six-day weeks with heavy overtime. But whether the speedup in any way contributed to the Challenger...
Clark Air Base and Subic Naval Base are the largest U.S. military installations in any foreign country. With 18,000 men and women on active duty, they manifest the determination of the U.S. to maintain its power in the economically fastest-growing region in the world. Militarily, they project U.S. might all the way to the Persian Gulf and safeguard the sea-lanes through which 80% of the West's strategic raw materials pass...
...most of its history, the Harvard Law School represented an ideal of legal traditions based on intellect and scholarship. In the past few decades the rampant greediness of its professors has become manifest. The Harvard Law School has been, for quite a while, a place from which forays into television, etc., have been launched by its publicity-crazed faculty...
...point to easily, but will instead be something we feel. Of course, "feelings" are not very convincing to us materialistic young men and women. That's why we should be forced to do it. Eventually, the civic-mindedness and open-mindedness that arise from a universal national service will manifest themselves, and those who come after us won't think they're being forced at all. It will be self-reinforcing, and eventually seem almost natural...
Prophetic literature is intrinsically political, since it is either a reaction against or an extension of known conditions of life. And Le Guin, who has moved gradually from straight science fiction toward visionary narrative, makes no secret of her polemical intentions. The Condor people manifest all the darker impulses of contemporary superpower states. The Kesh are what humans could become if they would stop trying to impose their wills and designs on the earth. The enormous swatches of pseudoanthropological material in Always Coming Home amount to a blueprint for an allegedly better world...