Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...national concern, one that Congress tried to deal with by passing the ham-handed Communications Decency Act in 1996. But last June the Supreme Court ruled that the CDA violated adults' First Amendment rights, leaving the whole issue of children and the Internet in something of a legal vacuum. Since policymakers abhor vacuums even more than Nature does, the capital found itself host last week of a conference graced with the title of "Internet/Online Summit: Focus on Children." Was there no budget for a clever acronym...
Grade A poultry--which arrives at dining halls in vacuum sealed bags--is also cooked thoroughly to prevent the growth of bacteria such as Salmonella...
...When you make choices like this, you don't make them in a vacuum," said Marshall Ganz '66-'92, an instructor at the Kennedy School of Government who worked for the UFW from 1965-1981 and directed the union's organizing efforts under Cesar Chavez...
...past few years one eager start-up after another has rushed in to fill this vacuum, producing nearly 100 online commerce "standards," each vying to be the Web's one and only. Netscape and Microsoft, for their part, have responded by packing more and more proprietary software tricks into their increasingly unwieldy and overburdened browsers...
...made with the film call attention to its lack of content. The sets look artificial and freshly constructed, and there are hardly enough extras milling around to make the ICU resemble an actual hospital ward. At selected moments, all sound other than dialogue is suppressed--people speak in a vacuum as doors slam and gurneys rumble by in utter silence. It's a unnerving device, but by putting a magnifying lens to the dialogue, Lumet only highlights the stilted writing and heightens the sense that he's out of his element...