Word: third
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...arts in which large men who resemble comic-book characters pretend to fight each other, so when he was inaugurated and did not appoint barflies and dope dealers to office but donned a suit and white shirt and horn-rimmed glasses and managed to sound half-smart about a third of the time, his approval ratings turned three sheets to the wind and have stayed that way ever since...
Getting nervous? In the past two weeks, the Dow Jones industrial average has fallen 529 points, a drop of nearly 10% since its August peak, punctuating a dismal third quarter. Investors are hoping--praying might be a better word--that Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan will decide against the third interest-rate hike of 1999 when the central bank's Open Market Committee meets this week...
Pretty neat, you think? Just wait until the third generation of shopping agents moves out of the lab. Even now, folks at M.I.T. and IBM are preparing for a world in which every transaction becomes a complex trade deal between a pricing bot acting for the site and a shopping bot acting for you. "Dynamic pricing, that's the big notion," says Professor Pattie Maes, director of the software-agents group at the M.I.T. media lab. "After all, fixed prices have been around only for a couple of hundred years...
...happens, the eye's lens provides just a third of the eye's focusing power. The rest comes from the cornea, which acts like a second lens to help focus light onto the retina. If you're nearsighted, or myopic, your eye produces clear images of nearby objects or people. But light from distant sources is focused on a point somewhere in front of your retina--either because the curve of your cornea is too steep relative to the length of your eyeball, or the eyeball is too long relative to the corneal curve. If you're farsighted, or hyperopic...
...Most get replaced by younger models with less clothing in subsequent releases. Now, in what must be a lothario's nightmare, Vanity Fair has assembled 007's sirens for a group photo. Since Bond has vanquished more vixens than villains, it was a big group (this is only a third of them). From left, they are: URSULA ANDRESS (Honey Ryder), SHIRLEY EATON (Jill Masterson, coated in paint in Goldfinger), HONOR BLACKMAN (Pussy Galore), LUCIANA PALUZZI (Fiona Volpe), JILL ST. JOHN (Tiffany Case) and LANA WOOD (Plenty O'Toole). Where's Miss Moneypenny when you need...