Word: onsets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tend to be highest in prosperous countries where people are well nourished. In such lands of plenty, girls begin to menstruate at an earlier age, women tend to have their children later in life and menopause also comes later. Late menopause (after 50), delayed childbearing (after 30) and early onset of menstruation (before 12) are all acknowledged "risk factors" for breast cancer. For older women, obesity also increases the risk of the disease. King notes that better education and job opportunities for women have furthered the trend toward postponed motherhood and childlessness (also a risk factor). "All the things that...
...befits the onset of the century's finale, a mixture of earnestness and irony -- a kind of American yin and yang -- characterized the year. The Northwest hamlet of Twin Peaks became the moody, ironic capital of the American landscape. Madonna, the queen of camp, literally and cheekily wrapped herself in the Stars and Stripes in a larky get-out-the-vote video. Even George Bush got into the irony act when he told America that since he is President, he no longer has to eat his broccoli...
...rose with the deft handling of the complex negotiations that brought about merger in October. Unity, said the liberal weekly Die Zeit, "rescued him." It also obscured all other issues. The theme of unification, says Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, head of the Allensbach polling institute, "was completely constant from the onset of the campaign, dominating it to the exclusion of any other everyday issue." The juggernaut rolled over Lafontaine...
...executive of Montgomery Ward: "There are more negative dynamics working than at any other time I've seen in my entire marketing career." After a year in which retail sales barely kept up with a 4.8% inflation rate, merchants have watched even that shopping pace flag just before the onset of the most important selling season of the year, one that typically accounts for as much as 60% of annual retail profits. Overall, sales (excluding gasoline) fell 0.1% in October...
Usually, the onset of the holidays spurs an increase in retail hiring to handle the surge in business. But during the past three months, for the first time since the 1981 recession, the number of workers employed in the industry has been shrinking as the crucial shopping period approaches. In many stores customers who can find what they want may have trouble locating someone to ring it up. Even so, because of troubles elsewhere in the economy, stores have been able to attract some very impressive temps. In Manhattan, for example, where nearly 50,000 Wall Street traders and other...