Word: overtaken
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...then he meets Sachiko. Her husband is a typical "salaryman," continually absent from home. For a while, the monkish American and the lady regard each other at arm's length. But the couple are soon overtaken by enchantment. "I little ghost," she tells him. "Old Japanese story: ghost visit man many many times, many very happy time together. But man's friends much worry. His face more weak, more pale. Ghost eating his heart." Reflects Iyer: "She could hardly have given more eloquent expression to all my unspoken fears...
...battle over immigration policy is yet another AIDS-related issue in which the politics of emotion have overtaken the reign of reason. The wrangling began in 1987, when Senator Jesse Helms pushed through an amendment that added AIDS to the Immigration and Naturalization Service's list of dangerous and communicable diseases that may not be carried into the country. Currently, travelers are requested to complete a questionnaire that asks if they are infected; would-be immigrants must submit to a blood test...
...remarkable thing is that so few public figures ever speak their own words. "Ghostwriting," the polite term for plagiarism, has overtaken American public life...
...generations, is obliterated in a deafening roar and a ball of flame. A man whose incandescent family had long been identified with one-sixth of the human race, Rajiv Gandhi last week went the way of his mother Indira, falling to a climate of violence that has steadily overtaken the subcontinent. Rajiv, 46, heir to a miraculous name, disappeared in a fiendish conjurer's trick: amid the theatrics of an electioneering stop, and in the puff of smoke from a bomb...
...Harvard Real Estate has taken over a lot of the design," Dowds says. "The people with the calculators, trying to figure out how much money they can squeeze from the land, have overtaken the architects and the educators...