Word: tip
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With thousands of embryos retrieved and frozen in fertility clinics across the U.S., this could be the tip of an obstetrical iceberg...
...Ohio the trick got out of hand. The old-fashioned town meeting has fallen from favor because it was disorderly and unpredictable--ill suited to the kind of dispassionate reflection government is supposed to require. In a real town meeting the balance tends to tip toward the fellow with the loudest voice--the crank with the thickest sheaf of mimeographed papers under his arm. The Founders had a horror of direct democracy for this very reason, and the system they devised was meant specifically to calm the passions, quiet the mob and channel its energies, and create a space...
...Kings thought it was a game-tying three-pointer, but the tip of Richmond's sneaker was on the line, so it left Sacramento behind 100-99 with 5.7 seconds left...
...same token, we ought not stick our heads in sand and refuse to learn from the study. This is a clear reminder, if not a wake-up call, that our educational program is not tip-top. President Clinton is rightly convinced that national standards are the way out of the current mess. At a New York City fundraiser in January, the President explained his reasoning: "We cannot pretend, if we have a truly progressive vision of the future, that we can ever achieve what we want to achieve unless we hold our children--all of our children--without regard...
...these millions could only be the tip of theiceberg for financial aid growth...