Word: tamed
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...Deal project created to tame the Tennessee River and pull its impoverished valley out of the Depression, the TVA has far exceeded the dreams of its founders. The $6.7 billion-a-year enterprise is the nation's largest electric utility and continues to fuel economic growth in Tennessee and surrounding states. But it also has doled out millions of dollars in consulting fees, salaries, rent for office space, and investment capital, much of it directed to supporters and advisers of the home-state politician who reached the vice presidency, Al Gore...
...There's supposed to be an orgy in Hollis, but I'm looking out my window right now and it's looking pretty tame," he said...
...much for the other popular genres, in which good and evil are allowed to mingle. Think of all the seedy detectives and flawed spies. Romances must end happily; the spirited heroine must bring the male of her choice to heel--"civilize" or "tame" him, as romance authors like to put it--before the final clinch and fade-out. Defenders often point out that mysteries must also conclude in a predetermined manner: the crime is solved, the suspect unmasked. But that analogy won't wash, since the identity of the guilty party in mysteries is withheld until the end. Romance heroines...
Sadly, the tempest in a tabernacle simply increased, loaves-and-fishes-style, the publicity for a lame, tame series--in which telling Satan "Go to hell!" passes for a punch line--that a merciful deity would have let expire silently by April. Which raises a now familiar situation for a critic. You'd like to stand up for GD&B. Because that's your job, right? To defend viewers' free choice? To save misunderstood works of genius from the philistines? Except GD&B isn't a work of genius. It's just an inept sitcom that lucked into some free...
...discovery of a set of chemical reactions using iron and platinum that can tame magnetic particles so minute that they are measured in terms of atoms. These kinds of chemical reactions are thought necessary to facilitate the mass fabrication of such precise materials. The breakthrough also nuzzles closer to a theoretical limitation in the field of magnetics, a physical point at which magnetic particles are too small and dense to hold a charge...