Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Other areas that Christopher pointed to as central for the coming year were the ongoing Middle East peace process, checking the spread of weapons of mass destruction and fighting international crime...
...whom its appeal is easy to understand. For one thing, it is pure psychedelia. And tie-dying is cheap. For little added cost, it can turn a 32 cents T shirt into strawberry fields forever, or an old pair of jeans into a tiptoe through the tulips.The fashion spread rapidly through the rock world; many of its stars now sleep in tie-dyed sheets (Janis Joplin has a set in satin). Pop singer John Sebastian habitually turns himself out in tie-dye from chin to tennis shoes; he does it all himself, and his stove is usually covered with bubbling...
...electronic from its very inception: the legislation was co- authored by talk-radio host Ray Appleton from Fresno who knew the victim's father and had fielded outraged calls after the killer's lengthy criminal record came to light. As the idea gained ground in California, it spread east. Its popularity was electronically catalyzed -- on talk radio, especially -- and electronically expressed in telephone polls, on the airwaves, by fax. President Clinton, with the support of Congress, complied promptly and cheerfully with the people's will. A push-button referendum would not have worked more effectively...
...that honestly. This, in a sense, is more disturbing than the cases of dishonesty or demagoguery. It means that the corruption of the public interest by special interests is no easily cured pathology, but a stubbornly rational pattern of behavior. The costs of each group's selfishness are spread diffusely across the whole nation, after all, while the benefits are captured by the group. Though every group might prosper in the long run if all groups surrendered just enough to balance the budget, it makes no sense for any of them to surrender unilaterally...
Wire services spread the word around the world, and the press laid siege to his office at Paris' Kremlin-Bicetre hospital, leaving Baulieu somewhat perplexed at the sudden interest. He stresses that the pill would not extend life but might, after further testing, enable people to "age well." Even that possibility remained in doubt, though. In the U.S. Baulieu's comments sparked skepticism at the National Institutes of Health and other medical centers...