Word: sag
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Bookstore shelves sag under the weight of volumes quantifying what computers will do for our math, medicine and management, but The Second Self explores a broader futurescape. Like the telescope, which forced man to accept a less exalted position in creation, says Turkle, the computer is challenging the manner in which we think about our ourselves. "The question," she writes, "is not what will the computer be like in the future, but instead, what will we be like...
...abundant. His shoulders are only slightly stooped, and he walks without a shuffle. His dour, dark-eyed face has been etched over the decades with downturning lines, but it is still capable of all the familiar flashes of emotion: the rare, stray wisp of a smile, the characteristic sag of one side of his thin mouth to denote disapproval, the sudden contortions of carefully thoughtout anger. However he has changed over the years, Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko has also remained the same: the enduring personification of the ultimate Soviet diplomat...
Lotteries are as enticing to strapped state legislatures as they are to hopeful ticket buyers. But for both, they offer at best an unreliable source of income. The games generate a rush of enthusiasm, with revenues to match, when they are first legalized. But interest and profits soon sag unless new versions are introduced. In 1981 Arizona's opening game pulled in a robust $5.4 million a week; by its second year, the take had plummeted to $900,000. (It now averages $1.2 million a week.) "In lottery operations, you have to keep innovating to be successful," says Douglas...
With his second wife, Gwyn, whom he married in 1943, Steinbeck went in for Manhattan town houses, and New York literati like John O'Hara and Nathaniel Benchley were favorite guests. As he approached 50, Steinbeck and his third wife, Elaine, moved to Sag Harbor, a resort and fishing village on the eastern end of Long Island. All along, his life was like a badly made play; none of the people or places quite seemed to fit the man, any more than did the costume he sometimes affected: black cape, cane and broad-brimmed...
...fits according to your income." The poor, in fact, are regularly euphemized into invisibility by being given new names such as "disadvantaged." One of the oddities of euphemisms, though, is that they tend to reacquire the unpleasant connotations of the words they supplant, like a facelift that begins to sag, and so they have to be periodically replaced. The world's poor nations have changed over the years from underdeveloped nations to developing nations to emerging nations...