Word: rage
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Besides, judging by the hubbub over the Kasparov match, even if computers could pass the test, debate would still rage over whether they think. No one doubted Deep Blue's chess skills, but many doubted whether it is a thinking machine. It uses "brute force"--zillions of trivial calculations, rather than a few strokes of strategic Big Think. ("You don't invite forklifts to weight-lifting competitions," an organizer of exclusively human chess tournaments said about the idea of man-vs.-machine matches.) On the other hand, there are chess programs that work somewhat like humans. They size...
...fights that war from his side, Peres must contend with the sometime fecklessness of Arafat, the rage of the Israelis, the bitterness of the Palestinians and the mistrust of his own military--all while an election rapidly approaches. So far, he has navigated quite coolly, but he sails a narrow channel, and the seas may well grow higher...
...last month they received a letter from the Jorges' lawyer demanding that the boy and girl undergo genetic testing. "We do not want to unduly disrupt your lives," the letter read without intended irony, "but rather to help facilitate a relationship between my clients and the children." Trembling with rage, the wife told the Orange County Register, "I don't want to talk about it. These were my eggs...
...also lends a hand to creating the atmosphere of America 50 years ago: for the wealthy ladies, dresses you'd expect to see on Greta Garbo; for the less affluent girls, simpler, plainer dresses suitable for Betty Crocker. The most charming detail is the plaid suitcases that were the rage in the 1940s, carried by characters costumed as traveling salespeople...
...better than he or she was before entering. Whereas jail was once seen as a place for penitence and growth, where people who went wrong could change themselves and improve, we now associate jail with an overly expensive and dangerous cage. In jail little of value occurs; instead, increased rage is generated. Those who emerge from the prison doors are now greeted with the black rose of society in the form of an inescapable reminder of their past crimes...