Word: terming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...expect the new Boston ordinance to have short-term effects upon the City of Cambridge...
What Jefferson understood, Sandel argued, was the feelings of apprehension and powerlessness that went along with building the greatest economy in the history of the world. It is a tension that Clinton is giving more thought to since last fall, when he suffered the biggest defeat of his second term: Congress's refusal to give him the "fast track" authority he sought to negotiate more NAFTA-like trade deals. Former White House aide Bill Galston, who attended the dinner, says Clinton is convinced the defeat was not a failure of tactics or the work of interest groups but rather...
After a confidential 1980 memo warned executives to change their terminology, company documents referred less often to the 14-to-18-year-old market. But they went on talking about how to target "younger adult smokers," a term that encompassed teenagers in earlier company discussions. By 1988 Joe Camel had arrived in America...
TIME: "The revolution" has become an amazingly elastic term these days. Doesn't the term become hollow...
...microchip has changed the world, but do we know what the long-term consequences will be? Like the programming changes needed to adjust computers to the year 2000, unexpected difficulties lie ahead of us. As has been pointed out by anthropologists, the tools we use to shape the world shape us reciprocally. Computer programmers have not taken this into account. The results will be a modern Tower of Babel: an avalanche of improperly understood information producing increasingly serious errors, messed-up minds and even economic catastrophe. DAISY SWADESH Farmington...