Word: reprocess
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Even though they are labeled for onetime use, biopsy needles, catheters, angioplasty balloons (right), scissors and other medical supplies are often sterilized and reused by hospitals. The government is considering regulating the companies that reprocess these devices. But if experts are not particularly alarmed, why is everyone so upset by this news...
...after a news organization for what was essentially a libel claim," said TIME senior writer Alain Sanders. "And the court said no, you're not damaged because of trespass, you're damaged because of what they reported." Memo to supermarkets: When hiring someone to reprocess tainted meat, check references...
...dial long and fruitlessly during those years to find a show that focused on the sort of teenager who might go home after school and find meaning in the words of Courtney Love. Perhaps because TV has always been a few steps behind other media in the race to reprocess and package alternative culture (remember that the women's movement was already in swing in the late 1960s, but you could still tune in to a midriff-baring Barbara Eden addressing Larry Hagman as "Master" on I Dream of Jeannie), it has taken a while for empowered girls...
...know about Pyongyang's existing nuclear capacity, but seeking to resolve that question now would have been a deal breaker. The agreement is smarter still because if Clinton had managed to induce the North to abide only by the terms of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, Pyongyang could continue to reprocess plutonium so long as it promised not to use the fuel to build weapons. "But that assumes the International Atomic Energy Agency could guarantee that ((the North Koreans)) wouldn't use the stuff to make bombs, and the agency has proved poor at that in the past," says Robert Manning...
...next act begins. Even if some plutonium was diverted in 1989, it was enough for no more than one or two bombs. The fuel rods Pyongyang has just removed from the reactor will have to cool for about a month. After that, if the North Koreans reprocess them, they will remove all evidence of past extractions and, more important, acquire enough plutonium for five additional bombs...