Word: pose
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those clichas can bail you out in foreign box-office and home video, which, unlike the domestic theatrical business, are truly mass (i.e., highly conservative) markets. Smaller movies, starring less potent performers, on the other hand, offer no downside protection. They may represent a smaller investment, but they also pose the risk of near total loss...
...such disparate congressional supporters as Colorado's Patricia Schroeder, a gun-control proponent, and North Carolina's Fred Heineman, a Gingrich Revolution conservative and ex-police chief. Allan Parachini, spokesman for the a.c.l.u. of Southern California and an NIJ adviser, anticipates that somewhere down the line it may pose privacy issues. But even he exhibits guarded enthusiasm. "Anyone who is sane is interested in trying to find ways to have fewer guns on the streets," he says. "The research should continue...
Sometimes, though, all it takes is the right question. Thomas V. Sobczak, a security expert with Application Configured Computers in Baldwin, New York, says he recently decided on his own to pose a simple question on an electronic bulletin board for aerospace engineers: "How good is aircraft stealth technology?" A dozen engineers, scientists and even an Air Force officer responded with data on materials used in Stealth planes, their design and the ways radars may spot the aircraft. It was, Sobczak says, "more information that I ever thought I ever would need...
...when he returned from the war and enrolled in Harvard College in 1946, Knight wasn't embarrassed when Harvard officials asked him to pose for nude photos...
Laying out pages can pose the same problems. A story can come to the editor or proofer in perfect printability and still be changed to fit the space available in the next day's paper...