Word: spawns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...outsider, an orphan. These people think he is theirs. Leo knows better: "Because I dream, I'm not." He is half Italian: Leolo Lozone, conceived during his mother's fruitful collision with a sperm-soaked Sicilian tomato. A bright, lonely boy could not be the spawn of this horrid clan. Surely he is not destined to replicate their mean lives and dead-end careers or the madness to which they are all heir. And so, in this slum of bruised humanity that never seems quite human to him, where "the birds endlessly bitch about winter," Leo will scribble his thoughts...
Eisner would make a superb Midas, should Disney ever decide to undertake such a project. Let's hope the rest of the corporate community does not spawn sequels...
Campaigns routinely spawn impossible promises and nonsensical ideas, and no matter how cynical you are, it's hard to keep up. The best that can be hoped for Bush's pay-cut plan is that the President doesn't intend it to be taken seriously, and that if he is re-elected it will be forgotten. In the meantime, the scheme should be seen as one more reason why so many doubt that Bush deserves a second term...
...Napa County farmer noticed that his vines were thinning out and called in experts from the department of oenology at the University of California at Davis. They concluded that the phylloxeras had mutated into a new, prolific biotype that threatened all AXR 1 rootstalks. Reproducing asexually, one insect can spawn a billion offspring annually...
...Moldova; in Georgia, where South Ossetians have been fighting to break away and join ethnic brethren across the border in Russia; and of course in Yugoslavia and in the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, caught in a violent tug-of-war between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Even peaceful secessions could spawn a slew of mininations, unable to support themselves economically and dependent on aid from richer nations for survival. At a recent international conference French President Francois Mitterrand worried out loud "whether in the future every tribal group will dispose of its own laws to the exclusion of any common...