Word: stream
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they all be squeezed into a single, all-purpose package -- a kind of pocket- size portable office -- that would let brokers buy and sell from a restaurant table, lawyers check precedents from a courtroom, doctors check lab results from a golf course, and salesmen close deals from a trout stream? Given the rapid advances in semiconductors, cellular communications and battery-power management, this dream is almost within reach...
...saving grace of the new technology is that the computer intelligence used to find you in the trout stream can also be used to filter out unwanted messages. Users can instruct their computer to give top priority to urgent messages from family members and to reroute all calls from a particularly obnoxious sales representative. "The idea is to create a permeable wall between work and your private life, between the inside and outside world," says Release 1.0's Michalski. And if that fails, you can always forget to recharge the batteries...
With the help of the New York State Alliance for the Mentally Ill, Weinerth and New York City activist Jean Arnold set up the clearinghouse operation in January 1990. Its efforts reflect more than concerns over hurt feelings or political correctness. A stream of negative images, advocates argue, makes it harder for recovering patients to find work, obtain housing or participate fully in society. "We're not language police," concludes Arnold. "We don't expect the word crazy to disappear. But we're hoping for the day when these stereotypes are as unacceptable as racist and sexist remarks...
...Customs seized the estate of one John Campbell Dowie, charged with smuggling hashish. As it happens, Dowie's 22 acres on the island of Hawaii were the childhood home of the legendary King Kamehameha I, who unified the islands in 1795. Traversed by the lazy beauty of the Halawa Stream, the lush property boasts important archaeological sites and major tourism possibilities. In a ceremony last week, Customs turned it all over to the state. Dowie, on the lam since 1990, did not attend...
...hats and boots made from cute animals. One senses a moral cancer beneath the surface: the all-American spirit of the music, far from including all Americans, actually seems a form of exclusion for people and issues. For years, the androgynous singer k.d. lang was locked out of main-stream country. Garth Brooks caught flak for a video that dared deal with domestic violence...