Word: nugget
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more nugget of possibly boring but crucial biochemistry: the erectile tissue in the penis has a finite number of receptors for cyclic GMP. This means that a normally functioning man with adequate levels of the chemical shouldn't get any more bang for his buck by gobbling Viagra; the variations anyone feels in his or her sexual response are due to factors outside the drug's purview. At the same time, Pfizer hasn't done any testing of the drug on nonimpotent men to prove the point, but it's hard to imagine that biochemical nitpicking is going to stop...
...poultry farm, we're more enthralled by the Brentwood News item about the opening of a Whole Foods market. Sighted pushing carts filled with such items as bottled water and organic carrots were Brooke Shields, Steven Spielberg, Ellen DeGeneres, Sophia Loren and the cast of Melrose Place. One more nugget pulled from the News: "Dustin Hoffman recently bought the home of an elderly lady so he wouldn't have to walk across her flowers to get to his tennis courts...
...mature market you need a good database, basically to steal the customer from the guy next door. To steal him, you need to know a lot about him. What he plays, what he eats and so forth." Mirage Resorts is at work on a system at its Golden Nugget casino to allow hotel clerks instantaneous access to a client's gambling history to determine what sort of room or comps to offer...
...watching the Knicks fold in the second round of the playoffs. But my relationship to television from September through May has, through three years of college, grown quite efficient: I've learned to use it only when it's the best or only means of being delivered some nugget of entertainment or acquiring a particular piece of information...
...onus on racial quotas. "The ads were race baiting and untrue," said Mandy Grunwald, Gantt's media adviser. "Alex has a crisp, clear way of going for the jugular." Castellanos believes in finding what he calls "the truest thing you can say about someone. If you find the truest nugget, it will resonate." But Castellanos knows how hard Dole can be to please. He worked for Dole twice during the 1988 primary campaign--once until Dole fired him and once a few months later, when Dole brought him back from exile...