Word: modern
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While sterile disposability and space-age technology have their place, that place is not in your hand. Today, you are a fountain pen. Modern in its sense of history, the fountain pen has been the stylus of choice since 1884, when the first workable model was invented by L.E. Waterman, a New York City insurance salesman. Its undisputed flow dried up 60 years later, when, thinking "time is money," the man in the gray flannel suit ushered in the ball point pen introducing a new level of corporatization and homogenization to America. In the years following, America flourished...
...also serves as president of the American Association of Political Consultants. His study group, entitled "True Confessions of a Political Consultant," will focus on the role that hired consultants play in modern-day politics...
...stunning collection of original Mapplethorpe prints. In fact, the clever allusion in the name to the Greek fount of Western society betrays (some would say obfuscates) an adherence to, as one club member argues, "an enlightenment ethos which struggles to maintain its integrity in a fractured post-modern society...
...join forces with powerful ?- and unlikely ?- political allies. The Wall Street Journal reports that many physicians, fed up with their corroding autonomy, are turning away from their Republican roots and appealing to a new group of allies: liberal Democrats. While politics and medicine have coexisted since the dawn of modern insurance policies, the stranglehold of each on the other has never been more evident than it is today. Not so many years ago, money-hungry doctors were seen as plundering American wallets, and Democrat-friendly HMOs were perceived as the last line of defense for the poor and the working...
...Hampshire. Follow the rules of the road--never brag, listen to your handlers, hope any controversial thing you ever wrote was pre-database, drop the idea that honesty is the best policy--and you might succeed. By these standards, Donald Trump will be the worst candidate in modern history. As the man once responsible for Georgia beauty Marla Maples' famous tabloid headline, BEST SEX I EVER HAD, Trump, who has a new book out in January, is used to breaking all the rules...