Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Year was born in Taichung, Taiwan, on Nov. 3, 1952. At birth, he was given the name Da-i, two Chinese ideograms that literally mean "Great One," a Taoist term of vast cosmological consequence. It is a name reflecting great expectations. Taichung, however, was a quiet town in the Taiwan boondocks, and the Ho family lived in a modest four-room house with a backyard ditch that served as a toilet and from which farmers collected fertilizer for their fields. To forge a better life for his family, Ho's father took ship in 1956, traveling 18 days...
...protease inhibitors give rise to a small social revolution, they will also produce an upheaval in purely personal relations. For instance, AIDS opened a quiet split between positive and negative men, within which the new drugs may add another fine fracture. "In the past, HIV-negative guys didn't want to date positive guys," says Jim Brudner, an AIDS activist in New York. "Now positive guys with 500 T cells don't want to date guys with fewer. Everybody is terrified of becoming a caretaker for a partner who gets sick...
Back too is the lush, year-end holiday party but with a '90s twist: quiet consumption, meaning that the posh hotels and clubs swell with revelers, the Cristal champagne ($190 a bottle) still flows, but gone are the ostentatious soirees of yore. Not unlike a Jil Sander suit: it's sleek, simple and elegant, but it still costs about...
...heard you the first time, Mom. I'm not having any trouble at all hearing you. It's very quiet up here...
...meeting, the first after last week's executive elections, was unusually quiet, with virtually no debate and the passage of several undisputed bills. It allocated money to print up emergency cards with the numbers for the police, medical assistance and counseling services. These wallet-sized cards will be distributed to all undergraduates...