Word: turn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Most students who are good with computers whiz in and whiz out, and it's only when you get stuck that you turn around and find there's someone there," Cole says...
...When [students] fell asleep reading their book[s] you could turn their pages back," writes undergraduate prankster Dean Masouredis '74. "When they awoke you would see if they remembered where they had been or if they would re-read the material again...
Over the same period, four Presidents have pushed to stoke up trade with China for rich profits for the U.S. economy. The hard part is making sure the U.S. doesn't sell the Chinese goods they could turn to military use. Sensibly regulated exports actually boost American security indirectly by promoting closer ties and helping ensure that China doesn't make deals with less conscientious countries...
...danger is that Clinton's implacable critics, armed with the Cox report, will vent their outrage on the entire Sino-American relationship. They are right to slam the door on Chinese spying, but a sizable number sound ready to turn China into the New Enemy. Washington hardheads talk of holding up the annual renewal of China's normal trade relations (the new bureaucratic label for most-favored- nation trading status) or blocking its entry into the World Trade Organization...
...still far away. But no one expects China to put its military ambitions aside anytime soon. In fact, as the country matures, its high-tech military hopes may grow as well. If the Cox report is even partly accurate, China has data that will make it much easier to turn those hopes to reality...