Word: takings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...willingness to accept the mutual financial obligations, community-property rights and shared commitments to care for each other that are the basis of family life. With this broader goal in mind, it makes sense for society to allow -- indeed to encourage -- domestic partners both gay and straight to take on all the rights as well as the responsibilities of marriage...
...saying that you expect Japan to take global leadership on the strength of its technology...
...object mounted on a postage stamp-size wafer and held aloft by a pair of tweezers is all but invisible. Even under a bright light, it looks like nothing more than a speck of dust. But magnified 160 times in an electron microscope, the speck begins to take on shape and function: a tiny gear with teeth the size of blood cells. "You have to be careful when handling these things," warns Kaigham Gabriel, an engineer at AT&T Bell Laboratories . "I've accidentally inhaled a few right into my lungs...
...micro level are as different as the laws of physics. A manufacturer might spend a small fortune putting hundreds of moving parts and circuits onto a single silicon chip. But when that chip goes into large-scale production and millions of copies are made, the economies of scale take over, and development costs virtually disappear...
...husband had seemed able to weather the punishing year, but Kitty found the return to stricken Massachusetts far harder to take. She sorely missed the attention and glitter of the campaign. In February, a few months after the election defeat, she decided on her own to declare publicly that she was an alcoholic. Two years earlier, Kitty had revealed a lifetime dependence on diet amphetamines...