Word: shrinkly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Trumping the shrink-wrapped tees at Old Navy, the Muji presents pen as commodity. The pen shaft resembles superfluous packaging, but the Muji carries no extras; the pen is packaging. Form, function...
...wish to work at the Langdell Law School Library or at Lamont Library will be able to bring their portable computers and easily access the network. Group study sessions, some of which would benefit from computer use, will be easier to arrange, and lines for campus computer kiosks might shrink...
...Projected amount Brazil's economy will shrink this year...
...certainly not immune to the gray cloud of misery that has descended onto our little hamlet. I, too, have found myself in the doldrums during the past few days, and after one particularly jarring personal calamity I even tried to seek the aide of a good old fashioned shrink. I went ahead and called University Mental Health Services only to be told by the not-so-nice receptionist that their earliest appointment wasn't for another week. How's that for rapid response? If you're ever on the brink, you only have to teeter for seven days before...
Stickier than the economic question is the ethical one. Most of us reflexively shrink from the idea of anyone's owning the rights to any part of the human form. Besides, if the first anatomist to spot, say, the pancreas was not granted title to it, why should modern genome-mapping scientists be able to claim even a single gene? As Kahn points out, "You could patent a system for mining gold from ore. We don't let people patent the gold." That kind of argument is grounded not in law but in the very idea of what it means...