Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...videobooks be far behind? To promote her latest novel, Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood starred in a video intended for distribution to book clubs, which are hot these days and getting hotter. Moving into the social vacuum created by the decline of Tupperware parties while appealing to some of the same higher yearnings as 12 Step groups, book clubs are invading homes, apartments and even TV studios. It's ironic. Oprah Winfrey, the woman once charged with debasing American culture through years of tacky psychodramas, has become, in a flash, the torchbearer of literacy, promoting such solidly challenging fare as Toni...
...this maneuvering in the party and government stratosphere is fascinating to the experts but at the same time feels anachronistic, even eerie. One of the world's last communist dictatorships is remaking itself in a vacuum while surrounded by 1.2 billion people. The great mass of Chinese feel more and more distant from rule of the party, by the party and for the party. They do not think of themselves as full citizens, much less as participants in their own society. Until the government establishes institutions with more legitimacy, with some voice for the people, it will be permanently unstable...
...only pray in these circumstances that the subcontractor in charge of the cabin was not also entrusted with engine maintenance. As for the crucial issue of when to go up and when to go down: we read of air-traffic-control computers so antique that they still run on vacuum tubes, and monitored, in most cases, by underpaid caffeine addicts working double shifts to pay off their therapists and divorce lawyers...
Rather than sweeping the differences of ADD-diagnosed children under the rug, we must break out the vacuum of personal engagement and clean off the residue left by years of clinical and medicinal approaches. Only when the dust clears can those exceptional children in our ranks begin to show us what they have to offer in a constructive, healthy and productive...
Panetta's departure leaves an enormous vacuum, and Raines appears eager to take advantage of it. In a White House that churns out micro-initiatives every day, Raines has squelched the Administration's habit of making such announcements without checking whether OMB has sanctioned a plan to pay for them with cuts elsewhere. This month he stepped in to require a more thorough vetting of measures that would tighten food-safety regulations. "There were more people running around with their own little pet projects," says White House spokesman Michael McCurry. "Raines has reined...