Word: swelling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brain stem, a primitive region that controls vital functions like heartbeat and breathing, has completed its wiring. Elsewhere the connections between neurons are wispy and weak. But over the first few months of life, the brain's higher centers explode with new synapses. And as dendrites and axons swell with buds and branches like trees in spring, metabolism soars. By the age of two, a child's brain contains twice as many synapses and consumes twice as much energy as the brain of a normal adult...
...truth, the growth is just getting started. Employment at Universal Studios will swell from 5,600 to 20,000 by 2001 as the company adds everything from superhero theme-park attractions to a 16-screen theater complex and dance clubs, hotels and restaurants. Disney is building six new attractions, including a cruise line and Disney's Animal Kingdom, and 8,000 jobs to run them. Many of those slots have a future: Al Weiss, the president of Disney's Florida Park complex, started as a part-timer who closed out cash registers at the Magic Kingdom...
Back too is the lush, year-end holiday party but with a '90s twist: quiet consumption, meaning that the posh hotels and clubs swell with revelers, the Cristal champagne ($190 a bottle) still flows, but gone are the ostentatious soirees of yore. Not unlike a Jil Sander suit: it's sleek, simple and elegant, but it still costs about...
...process intruded on a long-standing contract between that home and O'Keefe, O'Keefe filed a lawsuit alleging breach of contract. It was the kind of innocuous business dispute that flares daily in thousands of courthouses throughout America. No one foresaw that this lawsuit would swell into a five-year battle and, as a by-product, bring to light a vast but quiet transformation in the way America buries its dead...
...find these sweet mixes of cunning and convention throughout The Long Kiss Goodnight, a sleepy title for a swell turbo-thriller about a teacher with amnesia who was once a CIA assassin. If you shrug off a few silly touches (villains who shoot everyone else dead but leave Davis to worm her way out of trouble) and an underwear-and-underwater torture scene out of some lurid comic book, you can enjoy a clever tale of a woman who discovers her hidden violent side--her own macho twin--and uses it against those who made her what...