Word: primed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...country most violently opposed, outside Yugoslavia, is Russia. Moscow has been arguing against using force for months, and Prime Minister Yevgeni Primakov was in the air bound for Washington last week when the decision to bomb was made. As his plane headed across the Atlantic, Primakov got a call from Vice President Al Gore, who said the air strikes were now inevitable and proposed a joint statement postponing the meeting. Primakov curtly refused and headed home...
...make Dow 10,000 on our first run at it? Three letters: IBM.) There was a time in the mid-'90s when PC makers could count on ever more complicated applications requiring ever faster processors, causing consumers and businesses to upgrade PCs almost as often as Japan changed Prime Ministers. Sellers like Dell, Compaq, IBM, Gateway and Hewlett Packard got accustomed to 100% revenue-growth rates, while investors reaped heady returns: $1,000 invested in Dell in 1989 has grown to $640,000 today...
...rotten in the first place. In fact, by so many measures, the state of the union is so sound that you have to wonder why conservatives don't just declare victory and go home. Crime is down, divorce is down, likewise abortion, teen pregnancy, drunk driving and welfare rolls. Prime time gives us angels and virgins as role models. We are more charitable and churchgoing than we were in the hallowed 1950s. Yes, there is sewage in the culture, but Bennett's books are best sellers too. A CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll in February found that a majority of Americans...
...Forces of Nature." Well, we were wrong; the bar just got lowered. The Mod Squad, based on the TV series that ran from 1968 to 1973, is a disaster you don't have to wait for to happen. It could be the capper segment in a Fox prime-time special on the World's Most Inept Movies. The cinematography is so gross and grainy that the film looks like its own illegal dupe. The stars seem to be acting under protest. The picture has the jagged anti-rhythm of some cheap hipster fiasco from...
...evidence ("normal frequency" of intercourse: daily to weekly), which shows that the human sexual impulse is coupled to pleasure. It appears reproductively senseless only at the individual level but is probably the ace that ensured Homo sapiens' domination of the planet. (Hinduism recognizes this connection as one of the prime goals in life.) Familyists should welcome it as a great elixir for the daily tussle and tumble inevitable in marital life. This synergy between reproduction and pleasure explains the huge social benefit a family offers. SHARADCHANDRA D. JOG Bombay