Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kids as part of a trio called the Perfect Gentlemen, whose debut album is titled Rated PG (Senator Helms, take note). We may also look forward to the re-emergence of Tiffany, whose album and merchandising are now being handled by Scott. "We'll try to follow the same pattern, make all the right moves for her," Scott says. "And we hope that will create another profit center." There will also be an album by Biscuit...
Both Eli Lilly and the Food and Drug Administration point out that Prozac was extensively tested on more than 5,600 patients and that at least 2 million people worldwide have taken the drug. The FDA, which monitors reports of adverse reactions to drugs, sees no worrisome pattern to date. "Even if we got several hundred reports involving suicide and Prozac, we wouldn't be alarmed, given how many people use the drug and the nature of the disease," notes Dr. Paul Leber, director of the FDA's division of neuropharmacological drug products. "Depressed people commit suicide." Nonetheless, the agency...
...interesting to note that the history of empires that have prospered and declined all followed a fairly similar pattern. Empires that were enormously powerful and wealthy eventually declined and were replaced. Historians tell us that not one single empire in world history was ever destroyed by invading armies or economic forces but rather were decayed and rotted from the inside out, causing the society and then the country to collapse in anarchy...
Every problem in the first few days became a pattern. Enrico would ask me a question and I'd answer it. Then he'd ask another question that made it obvious he had misunderstood my answer. So I would repeat my answer again, phrased differently, and he would nod his head and then say something like "So we can take the Red Line to the Aquarium?" when I'd told him, no, they couldn...
...When you look at what the Administration is doing compared with what it's saying, you've got to ask, 'Where's the beef?' " says C. Fred Bergsten, director of the Institute for International Economics in Washington. "There's a pattern here: the right policies keep coming up short because they're so woefully underfunded...