Word: terming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...term of service in the army as a chaplain's assistant helped Winfrey determine his direction...
...organic foods own the hottest corner of food retailing, in which soccer moms mingle with ponytailed herbalists in the aisles of sparkling new stores. Sales of organic products alone, a mere $178 million in 1980, have blossomed into more than $4 billion, while sales of "natural" products--a term that's slicker than soy paste--have tripled in the 1990s and now exceed $12 billion. The retail organic-and-natural-foods business is gorging itself on 20%-plus annual-sales increases, in contrast to a subsistence diet of 2%-to-3% increases at traditional grocery chains...
...snow, appeared on Channel 36 in Nagano, and then on Channel 48 and Channel 47, the camera trained on competitors who looked like your Uncle Bob and the sound track made up of nothing but their curses, asides and excited cries of "Hurry, hurry, hurry!" (a technical term, one was told, meaning they should move fast). Another unlikely savior in the spotlight...
...Percentage of workplace romances that lead to marriage or a long-term relationship...
Evil is a large word. There should be a smaller term to describe the form of malevolence that sits at the kitchen table and indulges itself in the familiar dialectic: indignantly self-pitying sulk...lashing violence...remorse in the morning. Repeat...