Word: standardly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...normal-people habit of going to sleep before midnight and waking up at six to go to work. After a while, a friend directed me to The Atomic Clock, a cesium-based timekeeper maintained in a laboratory somewhere in France and used by scientists worldwide as the standard-setter for time on our planet...
...straight, to give us a frame for our lives, to place ourselves on common footing with everyone else. The next time we look at a clock, we should remember that it isn't guard in our personal prison--it's friendly face telling us that yes, there is a standard, and no, we are not alone. As you readjust to Daylight Savings Time, remember: You're the one telling time. Don't ever let time tell...
...Senate hearing, Gates was badgered to answer loaded questions and respond to competitors' envy-ridden charges of unfairness while he could have been doing what he does better than anyone else--creating wealth. If Americans cannot like a brilliant man who has increased the standard of living, created an industry, and is a legitimate hero to people all over the world (a living embodiment of the American Dream), I cannot imagine whom they would like. Gates is Atlas holding the economy on his shoulders. He could simply shrug. AMESH ADALJA Butler...
...Berkeley lake. There is growing talk by both local residents and officialdom (scientists and bureaucrats) of seeking to extract perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of zinc, copper, magnesium and other minerals that lie dissolved in the waters. The alternative--a plan to clean the waters with a standard lime-precipitation technique--has its own problems: critics warn that it could leave the community in the shadow of a mountain of toxic sludge as high as the lake is deep...
...women the same pitiable dependence and moral simplicity we find in five-year-olds. Such an attitude made sense perhaps in an era of male suffrage and "Help Wanted: Female" classifieds. Given the disabilities attached to womanhood in 1912, it was only fair and right that a new standard of gender equality not suddenly be proclaimed just as lifeboat seats were being handed out. That deference--a somewhat more urgent variant of giving up your seat on the bus to a woman--complemented and perhaps compensated for the legal and social constraints placed on women at the time...