Word: shrinks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Along the way, vital components began to shrink: the vacuum tube became the transistor; the transistor led to the microchip; the microchip married the phone and gave birth to the modem. Soon enough, sounds, photos, movies and conversations would be ground down into the smallest components of all: 1s and 0s. Was the digital revolution inevitable? In our brave new wired world, it certainly seems that...
...earlier this year, but it failed at the hands of representatives who either bought ridiculous arguments about a bigger council meaning better representation or, more likely, feared that they would not be re-elected to a smaller council. But it's illogical to expect the council to vote to shrink itself, and that will likely never happen. Which is why, with the council coming to us for a change, and down on its knees and begging at that, now is the time for constituents to cut the council a deal: We will give you more money if you cut your...
...Take a shower with your cap. Not only will the moisture shrink the hat to fit your head, it will prepare its brim for the next step. Using an herbal shampoo, gently massage your hat. Rinse and repeat...
Folkman's research works with compounds designed to shrink tumors by restricting their blood supply...
...most troubling aspect of Hurlyburly is not the realization that not one of these self-absorbed characters is likeable but the recognition of our own closeness to them. Maybe we've sat next to them in the waiting room at the shrink's office; maybe they buy cocaine off the same dealer; maybe they look back at us through redrimmed eyes in the morning. Maybe they're us, maybe we're them, and maybe we know just as little as they do about who we are and what the hell we're doing here. Drugs, money and sex do nothing...