Word: slating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whole new season, and everyone starts off with a clean slate," Millar said. "Right now we are only one of two teams that are 1-0, so we have the momentum...
There is even the beginning of grass-roots democracy. With little fanfare or publicity, peasants in villages across China are choosing local leaders by secret ballot from a slate of candidates that may include not only Communist Party members but also individuals with no affiliation. The farmers can unseat the bums who mismanaged the local electrification project or the crooks who pocketed irrigation fees and elect the "capable people" of their choice. By 2000, all of China's more than 1 million villages will operate under the system. Some say these local elections are diluting the Communist Party's power...
...Arabia with women, snagged 12 nominations. The Weinsteins have also scored in the real world of the box office. Scream, the teen horror movie made by their company's Dimension Films division, has scared up nearly $80 million--more than most of Miramax's nominated films. From its 1996 slate, the company has grossed $250 million, as much as all the other indie companies combined...
...explore the once hidden links between brain activity and brain structure, they are beginning to construct a sturdy bridge over the chasm that previously separated genes from the environment. Experts now agree that a baby does not come into the world as a genetically preprogrammed automaton or a blank slate at the mercy of the environment, but arrives as something much more interesting. For this reason the debate that engaged countless generations of philosophers--whether nature or nurture calls the shots--no longer interests most scientists. They are much too busy chronicling the myriad ways in which genes...
KARENNA GORE is sick of being the Secret Service's Smurfette. The eldest daughter of Al and Tipper reveals her code name (and the fact that Chuck Berry stepped on her toes four years ago) in the first-person Inaugural Insider column she composed for the online magazine Slate, on which she's an editorial assistant. Her duties usually run to fact checking and headline writing, but given the vantage point she had for the festivities, it's not surprising that boss Michael Kinsley gave her a few screen inches. Gore, 23. seems to enjoy being a Second Daughter...