Word: terming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hoping that the long-term implicationswill be an increasing appreciation of privatelives," he said...
Anne L. Berry '01, president of theHarvard-Radcliffe Republican Club, saw thelong-term effects of impeachment as merely morerecycled fodder for late-night hosts...
...people on earth. In England, there's an old story about the astounded response of the president of an Oxford college whose students, in a past less distant than you may think, asked for the installation of bathtubs: "Bathtubs! Bathtubs! These people are up here only eight weeks a term...
That won't reassure traditionalists, who argue that writing simply can't be reduced to rigid adjective plus subject plus verb formulations. "This is all part of a long-term approach to mind as machine," says David Schaafsma, professor of English education at Teachers College of Columbia University. "Writing is a human act, with aesthetic dimensions that computers can only begin to understand." The Kaplan course, a leader in test prep, has taken a more pragmatic approach: it has issued a list of strategies for "the age of the computerized essay." One of its tips: use transitional phrases like "therefore...
...POLITICAL FRONT: "I believe I acted too hastily," said Washington Mayor Anthony Williams of his decision to accept the resignation of David Howard, an aide who had offended some colleagues by using the term niggardly. Howard agreed to return to the administration in another, yet-to-be-announced position...