Word: swallowable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shiny appeal of such fragments--like slogans, logos, celebrated epigrams--leads us to swallow them whole without looking inside to the essential emptiness. Here, the fragmentation in Barthes' writing is not deliberate, not a formal statement but rather an unfortunate accident...
Some airborne smugglers try to bring coke or heroin through Customs in their baggage, an old-fashioned but sometimes successful ploy. Another, potentially deadly, technique is to pack the drug in condoms and swallow them or insert them in body orifices. If the package breaks, the carrier is likely to die of an overdose. One day last November, inspectors at New York's Kennedy Airport caught 13 smugglers who had swallowed or inserted their contraband...
...said Larry Niksch, director of Asian affairs at the Congressional Research Service. "It will take the government a long, determined and very sophisticated effort to deal with the insurgency." Added one Western diplomat: "Aquino's success undoubtedly weakens the Communists' appeal to the so-called mass base. But one swallow does not a summer make." Unquestionably, Aquino's policy is a gamble. If she fails to make visible progress against economic problems, it is possible, even likely, that the insurgency will grow...
...huge consumer demand for capsules still exists despite the Tylenol scare. Many people find the gelatin-cased medicine easier to swallow and less bitter than tablets. The bright color combinations of capsules also make them more readily identifiable. Moreover, because so many prescription medicines come in capsule form, a common--but false--impression has arisen that capsules are more effective than tablets...
Although Cornell can afford to carry on the supercomputer project without the federal money, giving up $10 million is a bitter pill to swallow. Thus the decision is both bold and praiseworthy. Other universities should also demand that the merit-review process be maintained. Indeed, some have already begun to do so--witness Harvard Vice President for Government and Public Affairs John Shattuck, who pledged that Harvard "will refuse all money not received by the peer review process...