Word: mimics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...speech peppered with jokes and personal anecdotes, Apple said the nation's top newspapers, network news shows and newsweeklies have come to mimic the values of the "lesser breed" of tabloids and television talk shows...
...problem, he says, lies in the fact that after extended use, decongestants actually create diseases of their own which mimic the symptoms of the allergy they were meant to relieve, leaving the allergy sufferer with double trouble...
Another area where computerized worlds seem to mimic the real one is economics. J. Doyne Farmer, a physicist formerly at Los Alamos National Laboratory, has been struck by how the mathematics of complexity seems to explain the workings of the stock market, which, like a biological system, involves constant adaptation to change by individual participants. After playing with computer models, Farmer decided it was time for a reality test of the theory. He and several partners founded Prediction Co., an Albuquerque, New Mexico, investment firm that uses math to try to beat the financial markets. Says Farmer...
...lead singer, Dito, does sound like Bono--but sans the passion. His voice is even scratchy enough at times to mimic Bryan Adams', but, again, with a fraction of the fervor...
...business- class service -- complete with extra-wide seats, free movies, restaurant- quality food and drinks on the house. But watch out when you get there. The supercarrier has been getting hammered in the busy California corridor by scrappy (and consistently profitable) Southwest Airlines. Now American is mulling plans to mimic some of Southwest's cattle-car tactics in order to match its low fares: open seating, no meals, no baggage transfers. Says an American executive: "Value isn't quality; it's getting what...