Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flats between Ambergris Cay and the mainland of Belize are one of the wonders of the fishing world. They extend for miles: a limestone plain covered by a blue-green, seemingly endless mirror of gin-clear salt water, traversed by bluer channels and punctuated by small mangrove islands. This is the home of Megalops atlanticus, the tarpon...
...face-lift of the Sunday Los Angeles Times Magazine is just the latest indication that the once somnolent flagship of the Times Mirror Co. is positioning itself to challenge the nation's most highly regarded newspapers -- the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal -- for visibility, influence and prestige. With a daily circulation of 1.2 million, the L.A. Times is already the largest metropolitan paper in the U.S., outstripping the daily New York Times by 88,000 and the Washington Post by 416,000. Its profits for 1991 are projected to top $110 million, double that...
...paper's editorial page has taken the same measured approach to the recent scandal surrounding a videotaped police beating. In the month since the incident, the paper has run as many as six stories a day, from long "Column One" pieces on group violence to two Times Mirror polls showing deteriorating support for police chief Daryl Gates. It was not until Coffey and other editors interviewed Gates and published what he said, however, that the editorial board ran a cautious editorial calling on the chief to resign...
...Southern California and found that the mean age at death was 75 for right-handed people and 66 for lefties. One reason for this discrepancy may be that left-handed people seem to be more susceptible to fatal accidents (7.9% vs. 1.5%), groping, as they must, through the mirror images of their daily lives...
...found everywhere, to be sure, but in many places professors contend it is becoming dominant. While American universities and colleges have always been centers for the critical examination of Western assumptions and beliefs, the examination has taken a harsh and strident turn. At times it amounts to a mirror-image reversal of basic assumptions held by the nation's majority...