Word: tick
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...TICK TALK Are ticks licked? Not quite. But Lyme disease cases this year are down 36%, compared with 1996. Why? People may be better at keeping the bugs at bay, and for now the tick population seems to have declined...
Despite a surface gloss of style, Boyhood never attains the frankness and intimacy that characterize successful autobiography. Coetzee's spare style, well-suited for drawing out psychological tensions, isn't appropriate for this subject matter. What makes Coetzee tick--and what drives him to write--remain unsolved mysteries...
...GORE Tick-tock, tick-tock. Reno had no choice. Still, she's getting closer. Al phones home for legal help...
What Makes Greenspan Tick? (Money Daily...
...present his findings to leading cardiac surgeons, Batista was rushed off to Baltimore, Md., to see a 32-year-old woman with congestive heart failure who was not expected to survive the weekend. In a moment of reflection, Batista offered a glimpse of what makes him tick: "The big thing for me is that an institution like Johns Hopkins can't do anything for this woman. And here I am, all the way from Brazil, and I have something that may be able to save her." Sadly, the woman was too sick to save. But for millions of others worldwide...