Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...city, a kingdom, a temple or, less often, a nut, a womb, a navel. It featured buildings and streets of precious metals and jewels, doves, palm trees (first discerned by the church father Lactantius), singing stones (a late borrowing from Celtic myth), white clothing, milk, honey, wine, olive oil, harps, fountains and ladders. It also developed a set of intractable controversies...
Magically, Max's dream comes true. The premise of Liar Liar is that all the false promises and compliments that ease our paths through the day, all the little evasions that oil the wheels of social and professional, as well as sexual, intercourse are suddenly unavailable to Fletcher. And remember, he's a lawyer...
...swollen ranks of professors bearing Ph.D.s earned at Penn and other schools during the boom years. The government, moreover, began distributing its money among a wider range of schools and insisting that institutions pick up more of the costs of research. And inflation began to accelerate. Even before the oil crisis of the late '70s, energy costs began climbing. From 1969 to 1975, Penn's heat and electricity costs rose nearly 300% while its income from investments declined and the growth of funding from the state of Pennsylvania began to slow...
...COVERED BY ANY H.M.O. Snake oil salesmen, beware. The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices in Minneapolis features 200 years of scientific chicanery, including a male "corset'' that generated a small shock to enhance the wearer's love life and the Nemectron, right, a gadget that supposedly overcame age's ravages, cured acne and lifted fallen arches...
...time ravaged my looks, I predicted to anyone who might listen that entrepreneurs in retail human cloning would emerge quickly enough. And so they did. First in abandoned Indian Ocean oil rigs and Antarctica--and then slowly and discreetly in more traversed parts of the world...