Word: tensed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"It's a very schizophrenic time," says Sherry Turkle, professor of sociology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who writes books about how computers and online communication are transforming society. She believes our culture is undergoing a kind of mass identity crisis, trying to hang on to a sense of...
They are also usually home at midday and available to take calls from phony telemarketers, far and away the biggest class of crooks preying on the old. Downs' first caller identified himself as Curt and spoke in the sympathetic tones that often win the trust of a senior. He commiserated...
Your article on Elvis Presley Enterprises and the licensing of Elvis memorabilia [BUSINESS, Aug. 4] had me howling over E.P.E. president Priscilla Presley's astute insight into how Americans value their dead icons. And your review of riches generated since the King's death reminded me of an Elvis-impersonators...
That's precisely what trailblazing companies like Marriott and nonprofit outfits like the California-based Center for Employment Training have been demonstrating--albeit to a still relatively tiny degree. Under their tutelage, tens of thousands of former welfare recipients now hold down positions ranging from executive secretary to shop-floor...
Yet I would put Seng and Peov on any tribunal chosen to judge him, for the reason that they are the enduring casualties of his work. I picture them at the trial. They hear the evidence against him, inspect the photos of the hills of skulls and learn all that...