Word: skips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even setting aside the hucksterism, laser surgery is hardly a risk-free procedure. Lasers work by emitting a powerful beam of light that vaporizes skin. Though some newer lasers can skip the top layer, or epidermis, penetrating to the lower dermis to kill abnormalities and hair follicles, lasers "wound" the skin to some degree, and healing can have complications. Long-term effects can include pigmentation changes in the skin: patients with darker complexions, such as African Americans or those of Mediterranean origin, are especially susceptible to skin lightening. And everyone is vulnerable to doctors or technicians who do not handle...
Right now, Buchanan is considering whether or not he wants to skip over to the Reform Party. This maneuver would place him, incongruously enough, in the same party as Jesse Ventura and Lenora Fulani who is associated with Louis Farrakhan...
...Opposite of Sex, Happiness, Election, Go) to which the mass film audience has shown serial resistance. Yet here you will find an easy charm, a cleverly unforced sense of humor and a benignity toward all its genially oddball characters that Hollywood would do well to emulate. If moviegoers skip this one, they'll be missing a real treat...
...hear PVR companies tell it, advertisers should be delighted, since the marriage of TV and online will make possible interactive ads and the ability to purchase products right off the screen. Changing the ads to include contests or other carrots will encourage viewers not to skip them. "Wait till the end of this commercial, and you can win a Ford Explorer," ventures TV analyst Josh Bernoff of Forrester Research...
Some industry observers have suggested that networks, through a combination of legal threats and investments, might try to pressure makers to drop the skip buttons. But analysts predict that as competition increases (Microsoft's WebTV satellite service will offer PVR-like features later in the fall), nothing short of an outright ban will prevent someone from offering such an option...