Word: turn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gibney Sr., ran the Tokyo bureau from 1949 to '51. This week Gibney--Junior, that is--draws on dispatches from Rahul Jacob in Seoul, Adam Zagorin in Washington and Jane Van Tassel in New York City to put into perspective the problems in Tokyo and Seoul. "You can't turn on the TV or pick up a newspaper in Japan without being hit by a flood of bad news," says Gibney. "The only statistics that are up are suicides and bankruptcies...
...middle-aged adolescents, which seemed to be the author's gloss on the American West. This means, however, that in the long present novel they spend many, many chapters not maturing: Gus mooning for his lost Clara, and Woodrow being cold to Maggie, his son's mother. When they turn sideways on stage, they are seen to be band-sawed from plywood, a drawback that at last seems to matter...
...Justice Department and Netscape should stop whining about Microsoft's alleged monopoly. In a competitive marketplace, failure to serve customers means that the competition wins. The Sherman Antitrust Act was never designed to protect companies that fail to provide service and then whine when their customers turn to competitors for it. JOHN M. SHONTZ Helena, Mont...
...TURN UP THE VOLUME Bill Clinton isn't the only boomer who needs a hearing aid. The average age of Americans with tinnitus, ringing in the ears, which is a sign of hearing loss, is down...
...irresistible. School Sucks is actually a public service, he says. He's solicited all those term papers from students and put them up on the Web to show the world just how ghastly the U.S. school system is. Get it? Besides, you'd be a fool to turn in one of his papers as your own work because the collection is out there on the Web for everyone to see. Even your teacher...