Word: spurns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some time now, American science has been falling out of favor -- with talented young people who spurn it, press commentators who slam it and congressional budget makers who squeeze it. But if the Nobel Prizes are any indication, the U.S. research community still has plenty of past glory to celebrate. In a typical near-sweep, six of eight winners in science and economics are American citizens, and one of the others got the prize for work done...
...sheer size, however, is one of GM's greatest burdens. Because of arrogance and inertia, GM has fallen out of touch with its customers. Except for products of GM's Saturn and Pontiac divisions, young drivers increasingly spurn the company's cars for Japanese makes or other U.S. models. The median ages for buyers of GM's bread-and-butter midsize lines are 45 for Chevrolet, 55 for Oldsmobile and 60 for Buick. By contrast, the ages of U.S. buyers of Japanese cars range from 35 to 40. GM has foundered while the more nimble Ford and Chrysler, which...
...Most of the public places students feel theycan go to get drugs, they're just going to getripped off," says the sophomore. "Boston is justnot a good place to get drugs."Crimson File PhotoStudents interested in purchasing drugsgenerally spurn the pit and other urban areas infavor of on campus dealers...
...what Nixon calls "the hard rock of enduring geopolitical realities" is honeycombed by an unexpected vein of moralism. The U.S. must continue aid to poor countries, says Nixon, at least partly because it has a "moral obligation" to help relieve suffering. More generally, the U.S. must spurn the suddenly fashionable new isolationism, not only for the expected practical reasons (its security and prosperity are inextricably bound up with those of the world at large) but also because it has "a moral imperative to use our awesome capabilities as the world's only superpower to promote freedom and justice...
WOMEN ON TOP by Nancy Friday (Simon & Schuster; $22). In her latest attempt to capture America's sexual zeitgeist, Friday maintains that women's erotic fantasies spurn comfortable settings, clean sheets and non-felons in favor of German shepherds, enemas and shackles. The author may have intended to provide an aphrodisiac with her pseudoscientific survey, but it comes off with all the zing of an affidavit -- and one that lacks the ring of truth...