Word: sate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...absence of real conflict, leave it up to fans to create it. After all, Trekkers and Lucasites are some of the most discriminating fans around, and they need something to sate their belligerent instincts. Consequently, a natural rivalry has grown, and Star Wars vs. Star Trek has become the hottest debate since Coke vs. Pepsi. The Star Wars and Star Trek franchises have never openly been in conflict, and yet the legions of diehard supporters on each side have taken it upon themselves to draw battle lines and fight for the supremacy of their respective favorites...
...absence of real conflict, leave it up to fans to create it. After all, Trekkers and Lucasites are some of the most discriminating fans around, and they need something to sate their belligerent instincts. Consequently, a natural rivalry has grown, and Star Wars vs. Star Trek has become the hottest debate since Coke vs. Pepsi. The Star Wars and Star Trek franchises have never openly been in conflict, and yet the legions of diehard supporters on each side have taken it upon themselves to draw battle lines and fight for the supremacy of their respective favorites...
Andrew Cunanan was 27 in 1997 when he launched himself on a cross-country spree, killing five men, among them the designer Gianni Versace. This unleashed torrents of media coverage, much of it by trash-TV shows and their supermarket sisters. Now, as if that were not enough to sate prurient tastes, two books revisit the events. Orth, a writer for Vanity Fair, unloads her notebooks indiscriminately, providing an overdetailed, pedestrian chronicle. Cunanan, a gregarious, wickedly clever mythomaniac and petty thief, disported himself in the kinky gay netherworld of alcohol, drugs, prostitution and sadomasochism. In a jealous rage he murdered...
...Those who find that a half-course on the history of baseball does not sate their athletic inclinations can turn to the state's "Department of Human Performance and Fitness." Cut-throat Harvard students might benefit from learning to play with others...
Another way to sate this need for speed is through DSL phone service, which enables your existing phone line to carry data at rates as fast as 1.5 million BPS. That's only half the maximum of many cable services, but DSL gives you "dedicated" bandwidth. Cable systems make you share bandwidth with other subscribers in your neighborhood, and things may bog down if you all go online after dinner. As with cable, DSL lets you stay "always on" the Internet since a single digital line can handle voice and data calls simultaneously...