Word: plate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...view of how mountains were built and seabeds stretched and rifted, and how continents oozed out of place and out of shape, was itself shifting, upthrusting, subducting. Plate tectonics, the giddy new geology, said that continents floated on some 20 crustal plates, 60 miles thick, kept in motion by ... yeah, well, we'll figure that out later. But in the 1960s and '70s more geologists than not had signed on to the theory. Most agreed, for instance, that India had rammed into Tibet at high speed (and is still ramming), heaving up former ocean floor to create the Himalayas...
...Average increase, in inches, of a standard restaurant dinner plate over the past several years...
Fools' footprints have been left in plenty of onetime high-flying IPOs. Boston Chicken, the eatery, could do no wrong when it sold stock in 1993. Adjusted for splits, it initially traded at over $25, but today the stock is under $2 and worth less than a plate of meat loaf with a couple of sides. Netscape's IPO in 1995 was part of Round 1 of Internet mania. Adjusted for splits, the browser company initially traded near $36, but today is around...
...Armstrong bent and twisted popular songs with his horn and his voice until they were shorn of sentimentality and elevated to serious art. He brought the change agent of swing to the world, the most revolutionary rhythm of his century. He learned how to dress and became a fashion plate. His slang was the lingua franca. Oh, he was something...
...order to be able to break down the complex motion of running into its component parts, Sternlight used a treadmill with a force plate embedded under the tread. The signal from the force plate was sent to a computer to measure and study the different variables that influence running speed...