Word: vanishingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the pill finds a maker, how will it reach the taker? Its proponents, especially those hoping to make the clinic protesters vanish, agree that France's tightly controlled distribution method was devised, as a New England Journal of Medicine editorial put it, "for political rather than scientific reasons." One common yet radical suggestion is that RU 486 and prostaglandin could be sold to women as prescription drugs and taken at home. "To even suggest that you could do that is ridiculous," protests Judie Brown, president of the American Life League. That sentiment finds some support even from Baulieu...
...phone jacks. In theory, professional barriers have dropped, so a Greek dentist can practice in Aberdeen, Scotland and an Italian lawyer can hang up his shingle in Hamburg, Germany. In actuality, the rules governing professional practice in each country remain decisive. On Jan. 1, internal passport controls were to vanish, but Britain, Ireland and Denmark balked. In the other nine countries, airport controls for internal E.C. passengers will disappear next year, after arrival gates have been reconfigured...
...Balkans have become a sort of Bermuda Triangle into which human decencies vanish without a trace. In the post-cold war era, it is unsettling to think that conscienceless tribal ferocity may catch on around the world. Rape, of course, has been an apparently inevitable part of war since men first threw rocks at each other -- or anyway since Rome was founded upon the rape of the Sabines. Joseph Stalin expressed a prevailing (male victor's) view of rape in war. When Yugoslav Milovan Djilas complained about the rapes that Russians had committed in Yugoslavia, Stalin replied...
...much of the hype and hope that surrounded Rebuild L.A. has seemed to vanish into the air. Instead of moving quickly forward with its plans to generate $5 billion worth of investment in the city over the next five years, the group bogged down in squabbles between community organizations over adequate representation on Rebuild L.A.'s 80-member board of directors. "Rebuild L.A. has left a lot to be desired," says Kaffie Powell, a retired postal worker and president of a South Central neighborhood advisory board. "There's not been as much effort as there should...
...situations of his eternal travelers: his sentences wind their way around line and stanza breaks, often avoiding consistent, literal reference, turning the normal finalities or fixedness of cliches and buzzwords into things entirely strange. The poems are always about identifiable states of mind, but scenes and referents often shift, vanish or blur to better reflect the minds which contain them...