Word: matter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Abernathy claims that he would have avoided sexual matters "had others not dealt with the matter in such detail." Previous accounts of King's philandering, says Abernathy, have not provided an explanation of his behavior. Abernathy does not do much better, merely observing that King "had a particularly difficult time" fending off women...
...holes are another matter. Many of them are so large it would cost more than $100 million to fill them, which could, in some cases, wipe out the profits made from the mine. "Some people think the holes should be filled in," acknowledges Livermore. "But as a matter of public policy, what's the rationale for it? The only real reason to fill in a hole is that people don't like the looks...
...forces were cheering themselves hoarse? After years of battling in the streets, the legislatures and the courts, they had won their greatest victory: a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, Inc. that gives states enhanced power to restrict abortions. It was only a matter of time, pro-lifers predicted, before abortions were severely restricted, if not banned...
America's high-tech companies do not have to look back: they know the Japanese are coming. U.S. computer-chip manufacturers, concerned that their survival is threatened, have gone to Congress for protection. And fear is rising that if the chipmakers go down, it will be only a matter of time before Japan overtakes the U.S. in the computer business. That would put an end to America's high-tech supremacy...
...incorporated into everything from furnaces to cars, the value of these products resides increasingly in the "intelligence" stored in their electronic components. In the future, industrial might will depend less on mass production and more on the creative use of information technology. Gilder calls this phenomenon the "overthrow of matter" by ideas...