Word: simpler
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this good news for anyone other than, say, five or six giant phone companies? "The world will be a much simpler place for consumers," argues NYNEX's Seidenberg, "with more choices, more services and more products united under a single roof and unified brand." Seidenberg says phone bills should deflate as the companies merge their billing and cut their labor costs; thousands of jobs will be downsized in the Bell Atlantic/NYNEX upsizing...
With the Unabomber, we have science employed to derail its own use and technology invoked to crumble technological advances. While the desire for a simpler and more pristine life crosses through all of us, the Unabomber sought changes that would best have been accomplished using means like the 1960s demonstrations and protests. Popular opinion can be swayed by example, and acceptance of views can be peacefully promoted by a smart leader. Some of the Unabomber's ideas have merit. Let's educate the people we wish to influence, not kill or maim them. DONALD C. RIFAS Sacramento, California...
...said it took him and his group more than three years to produce about 200 epoxidation catalysts before finding a workable design for use in the epoxide-forming reaction. A Harvard postdoctoral researcher recently synthesized more than 1,200 simpler molecules in one week using the techniques of combinatorial chemistry, Jacobsen said...
...find this and other new offerings in our Simpler Times Furnishings Collection, which still features best sellers like our woven bamboo Margaret Mead Litter Chairs; our World War I Turkish Cavalry Helmets (wonderful as planters); and our Lord Kitchener Lawn Furniture, made entirely of distressed, vintage cricket paddles. A new favorite of Jan's dad, who's very particular when it comes to comfort, is our hand-rubbed rhino-skin Royal Bengalese Club Chair. Sink into this overstuffed beauty, and try not to imagine yourself in the highest echelons of the Raj, ordering a vodka tonic or dispatching...
Other kids find amusement in much simpler pleasures...