Word: terming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same thing--and doing the same thing about it. More than ever before, professionals in many fields are feeling the need to obtain fast doses of additional training to keep up with intense competition and accelerating rates of change. Consequently, more and more of them are taking short-term, practical courses at business schools and continuing-education institutions across the country. The numbers are huge and growing: between 40 million and 45 million people are taking classes related to their careers. With rapid changes in technology and business management, some of these folks feel they need this education just...
...geeks have usurped an old financial term, disintermediation, and given it a new meaning to describe what happened to Britannica. To them it means the removal of middlemen, the intermediaries who smooth the operation of any economy--folks like travel agents, stockbrokers, car dealers and traveling salesmen. These people are the grease of a consumer economy, the folks who help you do things more efficiently than you could do them alone. But that's all changing: the Net is creating a new, self-service economy. Gates, who was late in recognizing the value of the Net, nonetheless has come...
Less noticed, however, is that gender nonconformists have been working together, with some remarkable successes, to build a political movement. Their first step was to reclaim the power to name themselves: transgender is now the term most widely used, and it encompasses everyone from cross-dressers (those who dress in clothes of the opposite sex) to transsexuals (those who surgically "correct" their genitals to match their "real" gender...
Think? Well, all right, maybe that's too strong a term. But the action in this movie, most of which takes the form of spectacular stunt work performed by real, as opposed to digitized, people (note especially the spectacular Roman riding gag), is motivated by simple, powerful emotions of an old-fashioned and rather melodramatic nature, which the characters are not shy about expressing. We're talking high romance, pure ideals, dashing heroism here--all the stuff that used to animate our big boyish movies...
...afternoons ago, I stopped by my term-time place of employment, an economics research facility near Harvard, and chatted with graduate students about life there, dipping into the ever-present background buzz of academia, of which I'm constantly reminded by the legions of friends doing thesis research. Many, many lunches and dinners, the long-delayed, much-rescheduled, "we-should-have lunch" lunches, finally happening...