Word: use
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...women at Middlesex say that Abrams' theory applies particularly to cases such as rape. Whatley says that occasionally "men are afraid to use their skills" in a rape case for fear that they will be too agressive, and therefore appear sexist...
Besides recognizing the obvious threats to the environment and human life, the committee also noted that nuclear satellites would speed up the militarization of space. There seems to be little, if any, civilian use for nuclear power in orbit--it is too dangerous and too expensive...
...have not rushed to gain this edge in speed or convenience. Of the 3.3 million U.S. homes equipped with computers and modems, only 95,000 subscribe to one of 41 different home-banking systems. Many who tried home banking complained that the software was often bug-ridden, difficult to use and slow. Moreover, inexplicable delays -- sometimes lasting weeks -- cropped up between the time customers ordered bills paid and the arrival of the payments...
...dollars. At the moment, other institutions plan to give the technology more time, but if customer interest does not pick up, there are likely to be more dropouts from the home-banking business. "For a technology to affect the way we live, it has to be cheap, simple to use and offer a strong reason to use it," says Timothy Bajarin, an analyst at Creative Strategies Research International in Santa Clara, Calif. "So far, for computer banking, those signposts aren't there...
...explode. But the movie also finds recesses where human dignity and compassion wait to be summoned. It is alert to the shifting emotional weight and moral responsibilities in any relationship, especially in the quiet interplay of Hackman and McDormand, two ordinary middle-aged people searching awkwardly to be of use to each other. Hackman caps a brilliant career here as an FBI agent that both J. Edgar Hoover and Martin Luther King Jr. could love. He takes the measure of this film: a watchmaker's craftsmanship, a marathoner's doggedness. With every confident frame, Mississippi Burning announces itself...