Word: vanished
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Believe it or not, Mass Ave. does not vanish past Central Square. Last Friday, I joined a group of Harvard students, all of us sporting pea-coats and toting L.L. Bean backpacks, at the Square's T stop and took the bus to the Boston Medical Center (BMC). We landed in neighborhood only miles from Harvard but worlds apart...
...hands when someone (heaven forbid) has checked their inbox but has not responded to our messages. We have become so paranoid about physical space that we screen calls. We finger-stalk. We struggle to remember password after password, half-recognizing that our information--our data, our ideas--could suddenly vanish if either we or our computers have a lapse in memory...
...only way of eradicating the beetle. Since August officials in Chicago have been spraying infested trees with purple and green fluorescent paint, marking them for doom. In the hardest-hit parts of the 14-sq.-mi. quarantine area, covering about 5% of Chicago, 80% of the trees will vanish over the next several weeks...
...only can such filings be sloppy genetics, they can also be bad business. est applications may lead to so-called submarine patents, claims that are made today and then vanish, only to reappear when some unsuspecting scientist finds something useful to do with genes hidden in the patent. To prevent this, Lehman requires that est applications include no more than 10 genetic sequences. Each 10 after that requires a separate application--and a separate filing fee. "Companies will now have an incentive to file more selective applications," says Lehman...
When Tiger finished the Furby--on schedule, in October--many more parents than usual knew about the new toy. Initial shipments sold out almost immediately. Now Furbies vanish from Target stores within a few hours of arriving from China. The Web's eToys.com has so few left it will hold a Furby giveaway sweepstakes after Thanksgiving. "If we got 30,000 tomorrow, we could sell 30,000 tomorrow," says eToys exec Phil Polishook. They have only about...