Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...satirist's typical distance from his creations and finishing besotted with them. In Therapy (Viking; 321 pages; $22.95) he describes a classic case of postmodern depression. Laurence ("Tubby") Passmore is 58, securely married, the chief writer on a hit TV sitcom. But he quickly finds he has a trick knee, a fed-up wife and a bad threat...
...year Sean Carroll, a developmental biologist at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Madison, Wisconsin, showed that a homeobox gene involved in insect-limb formation also controls the genetic signals that paint spots on butterfly wings. In essence, says Carroll, butterflies use an old gene to perform a new trick. "Evolution did not have to invent new genes," he observes. "One basic toolbox gives nature enormous potential for diversity...
...were pushed higher by "six rounds of computer-guided buy orders." The Journal said corporate earnings pushed stocks higher, along with the "belated recognition of the strong global position of ... U.S. multinationals." In the Los Angeles Times, it was healthy corporate earnings plus the rebounding dollar that did the trick...
Whatever else might be said about him, Thomas does seem to have a flair for marketing. The trick, he says, is in how you write the pitch lines that describe your pictures. "You want to make the descriptions like a menu," he explains. "If you're selling a dry, tough steak, you want to make it sound as juicy as you can." Among his favorite come-ons (and one of the few suitable for publication): "Peek into the bathroom and see this cutie sitting on the toilet!" A subscriber who chose to download that photo would get a digitized picture...
...call sign" that signifies a particular plane and its pilot. "I'm alive; help." Hanford subsequently asked him to identify the name of the squadron in which he had served in Korea -- a question designed to ensure that O'Grady's message was not, in fact, a Serb trick. When he replied correctly, Hanford notified his superiors that he had made contact with O'Grady. Then he peeled away over the Adriatic to refuel. And for a few short moments, he let his emotions get the better of him. "It's hard to fly an airplane," he said later, "when...