Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...salt, has a clearly defined width of 462 ft. and washes a shoreline 280 ft. long, composed of 600 tons of crushed, polished pebbles, all under a 660-ft. retractable roof. The chirping of birds is filtered through a sound system and echoes in the air even as plastic palm trees flutter in a piped-in breeze. When it officially opens this week, 10,000 people at a time will be able to play in the temperature-controlled waters of this man-made beach...
...Falwell is happy to conjecture, "I think RU 486 will be a major issue in the campaign if it is not yet distributed." His goal, he says, will be to elect a leader "with different morals than the President." The lifers will talk about death that hides in the palm of a hand; the choicers about empowerment a woman can hold between two fingers. Although the advent of RU 486 could greatly change the nature of the abortion debate, it is unlikely to make it go away...
...other diners barely look up from their pasta salads. Harry's five-year- old daughter, who doesn't talk, suddenly breaks her silence with one cryptic sentence: "Everything must go." And that's not counting the virtual- reality glasses that transport Harry into an 18th century ballroom, the strange palm-tree tattoos that seem to have become a fashion statement, and the creepy Senator who tries to recruit Harry to some shadowy cause by sending him a pen-and-ink drawing -- of a rhinoceros...
...Angeles, where convenience stores are as common as palm trees, the opening of yet another one would normally attract little attention. But in the burned-out zones of South Central, where the riots began just over a year ago, the grand opening of the Mom & Pop community convenience store was seen as a major event...
...casinos, in part because of a 1987 U.S. Supreme Court decision that recognized the right of Indian tribes to offer gambling games on their reservations. There are efforts to build casinos in downtown Detroit and Chicago, in pastoral New Hampshire and Maine, in the desert elegance of California's Palm Springs, at historic Penn's Landing in Philadelphia, and on the lakefront sites of abandoned steel mills in Gary, Indiana. Some entrepreneurs are even talking of the day when Americans will find video slot machines at every local bar or bet from their living rooms through interactive television...