Word: mega
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BOSTON--The owner of the New England Patriots may have guaranteed that the team won't move, but the proposal for Boston's Megaplex--a $700 million, 70,000 seat domed stadium--is still a mega-issue in the region...
...when it comes to playing politics with the Megaplex, it's easy to fumble. Flaherty, in fact, has gotten himself into a mega-political bind over the issue. Flaherty authored the Megaplex legislation, but now has emerged as one of the most vocal opponents of his own bill...
Booming with three new mega-hotel-casinos, the hypereclectic fantasy-theme city now seems mainstream. But that's because the rest of America has become more like Vegas...
Public debate has focused on the complexities of health care economics, tertiary care and the Boston regional health care system, integrating managed care and managed competition. We think there are more important things at stake: the new mega-hospital's name, for instance...
...here first." And (making the same assumption) you might remember that the word of the week this week is "zine," which is a contraction of "fanzine," which was coined sometime in the 70s from "fan" plus "magazine"; the missing "maga" (yes, I'm making this up) stands for "mega," since fanzines are by definition produced not by megacorporations intent on market shares, but by individuals (or small groups of people) who basically want to tell you what they like and dislike, and why. There are probably several thousand such publications devoted to one or another flavor of what...