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...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...
...horror stories were coin of the realm at Tuesday's Senate Finance Committee hearings into the agency. But TIME correspondent Bruce Van Voorst believes Senator William Roth?s hearings are something of a sideshow: ?We went through all of this a few weeks ago, and now we?re getting four more days of it. Roth is playing to the gallery,? says Van Voorst. ?The problem with the U.S. internal revenue system isn?t the agency; it?s the irreparably complex tax code -- which was created by Congress...
...Cyberspace vs. Meatspace" examines how applicable tangible realm laws are for the virtual world of "Cyberspace," which transcends the physical sphere of individual and national borders...