Word: spawned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...being a parent renders self-absorption impossible. Having kids may improve the self, but only incidentally, and the self never feels worse than when it stumbles out of bed for the 4 a.m. feeding. And as boomers are discovering, parenthood tends not to make you rich (unless you spawn the Jackson Five, which probably isn't worth...
...fishing hot spot is pinpointed by sonar, satellite-navigation systems enable vessels to return unerringly to the same location year after year. In this fashion, fishermen from New Zealand to the Philippines have been able to home in on orange roughy and giant groupers as they gather to spawn, in some cases virtually eliminating entire generations of reproducing adults...
Fights have already started to break out over the dwindling supply. Two weeks ago, hundreds of Canadian fishermen blockaded a British Columbia port for several days to keep an Alaskan ferry from leaving. The reason for their protest? Alaskan trawlers were sweeping up the salmon that spawn in Canada's rivers. Now the Canadians are threatening to do to the salmon runs of Washington State what U.S. fishermen have done to theirs...
...surveys show they prize honesty, competence and practicality over old-fashioned lockstep thinking and knee-jerk anti-Americanism. With AIDS the third leading killer of Mexicans under age 35, they are demanding a more candid discussion in the traditionally prim media of issues like sexuality. The demands have helped spawn a renaissance in Mexican television, cinema and journalism...
...fourth guy says, "All movies are comic books these days. Let's do more movies based on comic books!" Not just Batman & Robin and Men in Black but also two August releases, Spawn and Steel, are comic book-inspired. This junk-culture trend must please the kids in the Development departments; no more novels to read, with all those annoying words...