Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The Oct. 19, 1987, stock-market crash was a dramatic test not only of the world's financial institutions but of the world press as well. The dizzying swiftness of the collapse, its global dimension, the complexity of the underlying economic issues -- everything about it challenged journalism's ability to...
Carlucci does talk about cutting "force structures," meaning numbers of troops, ships and planes, and of axing "lower priority, marginal" weapons systems, especially those still in the research-and-developm ent stage. But so far, he refuses to chop any of the superexpensive weapons programs that such experts as former...
Anyone who tunes in on kidvid shows knows the full meaning of advertising overkill. Some programs, like G.I. Joe and Transformers, are based on popular toys, and have been denounced by critics as program-length commercials. All are punctuated by pitches for every product from superhero dolls to sugared cereals...
Yet punctuation is something more than a culture's birthmark; it scores the music in our minds, gets our thoughts moving to the rhythm of our hearts. Punctuation is the notation in the sheet music of our words, telling us when to rest, or when to raise our voices; it...
Convictions about the impossibility of education notwithstanding, though, what budding lawyers are doing at Harvard Law School is patently obvious. In a world where education in the traditional sense of liberation from prejudice had no meaning, the Harvard name might still inspire enough respect and command enough money to justify...