Word: realm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...realm of philanthropy, Hauser said, women need to learn they can influence issues and institutions they careabout--whether that's "lampposts or scholarships...
...recent revelation that reported cases of chlamydia on campus have increased dramatically should serve as a wake-up call to Harvard students. We may do well academically, but it takes more than intelligence to change behavior. In the delicate realm of sexual activity, Harvard students seem to be on a dismal par with their peers, mirroring a national trend of increases in the number of reported cases of chlamydia. The trend underlying the reported increase in chlamydia cases is disturbing, for it indicates that there are still too many people having unprotected sex. Sex without protection puts people at risk...
...realized that there is one drawback to being on the cutting edge of slang: not a lot of other people understand what you're talking about. I tried to apologize to Wayne. "Sorry, Wayne," I said. "That was a harsh realm...
...centuries such calculations were confined to a few learned theorists. In the minds of most people, time was vague; the future was tomorrow's sunrise, the next harvest, the coming winter or the inevitability of death. The more distant future belonged to the realm of religion. The modern concept of the future did not begin to develop until the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance, with the gradual consolidation of calendars, the spread of clocks and the stirrings of new forces. Both science and commerce needed to anticipate things, whether a chemical reaction or the expiration of contracts...
...more skeptical. In 1993, shortly after the New York Times published a glossary of grunge slang from Seattle, a journal called the Baffler claimed that a prankster had hoodwinked the Times with the notion that grungesters used "swingin' on the flippity-flop" to mean hanging around, and said "harsh realm" rather than "bummer." I was forced to admit publicly that if I hadn't happened to read the Baffler just before a trip to Seattle, which was sure to include some browsing at the mother church of Eddie Bauer, I might well have replied to a floor walker who asked...