Word: standard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...harsh reality is that today's society advocates promiscuity by removing responsibility for the consequences, and creates a double-standard for scientific knowledge by promoting one theory over another. Everyone likes to complain about the ills of society without offering any answers, but when religious groups offer their answer, it's automatically the wrong...
...result, the flyers said each first-year dormitory had been reassigned to a particular House's dining hall--which is the standard procedure when Annenberg closes for legitimate purposes...
...Pixar Animation Studios, the hottest place on the planet these days for computer animators. For 60 years, Disney owned animation, from Snow White to The Lion King. But when Toy Story 2 opens this Thanksgiving, upstart Pixar will seal its place as the new standard bearer of heart-warming stories for kids and parents. What's more, it's being done on computer and outside Hollywood...
...just as often engaged in brittle clashes of ego. "If that story is typical of your previous writing," Ted wrote after David sent him some of his fiction, "then it's obvious why no one wants to publish your stuff--it's just plain bad, by anyone's standard...
...LIGHT ON SAVING ENERGY Forget the dim glare of a classroom's fluorescent strip. The Twister from Lights of America--which makes only energy-efficient products--is a bright, compact fluorescent bulb that fits standard sockets, uses a fraction of the wattage of its incandescent cousins and lasts as long as seven years...