Word: specks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three networks have said they will back off from their overzealous pursuit of true-crime movies of the week. ABC, which drew fire for its two-parter in May about 1950s mass murderer Charles Starkweather, has turned down a proposed TV movie about 1960s mass murderer Richard Speck. Critics may cheer at the demise of this tawdry TV-movie crime wave, but good films may get hurt in the process. ABC had planned to air the explosively violent (and Oscar-winning) film Goodfellas this season, complete with an introduction by director Martin Scorsese in which he asserts the film...
...WHETHER MICROSOFT IS TOO POWERFUL AND RUTHLESS: Given the amount of mud people have thrown up on the wall to see if it sticks, I think it's pretty amazing that not a speck of dirt has ever stuck . . . There's no shortage of competition in the computer industry. You'll never have anybody in a very dominant position for very long because they have to prove themselves constantly. You can't just sit on a market position; the fact you have a 70%- to-80% share means nothing in the next round...
PLUTONIUM IS SCARY STUFF: INHALING A SPECK OF it too small to see would mean certain death. So the 58-day voyage of the Akatsuki Maru, which exposed a 1.7- ton cargo of plutonium oxide to treacherous seas and possibly even to pirates lusting for nuclear booty, made plenty of people nervous. When the hot shipment finally completed its journey from Cherbourg, France, to Tokai, Japan, 140 km (90 miles) northeast of Tokyo, it was greeted by 1,000 protesters, some of whom had painted the universal radiation warning symbol on their faces. The crowd eventually dispersed and the cargo...
...contradiction between the Bible's account of creation and current science. Schroeder also notes that the Ramban, the great medieval commentator on Scripture, had the remarkably modern insight that at the moment after creation, all the matter in the universe must have been concentrated in a tiny speck...
...Komsomolets also carried two nuclear torpedoes containing 28 lbs. of plutonium with a half-life of 24,000 years and toxicity so high that a speck can kill. Russian experts warned that the plutonium could spill into the water and contaminate vast reaches of ocean as early...