Word: versa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...days before civilians actually start voting, the people who make their living in politics somehow agree on a standard, a point spread, an expectation. Thereafter, if a particular candidate is perceived as performing less well than expected, his victories are labeled losses--or vice versa. Since the actual election of a President depends on absolute numbers, it may all seem ridiculous, but it isn't. In fact, cause and effect have been well established. If, during the long course of caucuses and primaries, the point spread isn't beaten, momentum is lost and a candidacy can implode as cash...
...make extravagant claims about its antiaging properties. They write that ingesting small amounts of melatonin will allow people to turn back the clock and live 120 years or more. Their evidence? An experiment in which Pierpaoli transplanted the pineal glands of old mice into young ones, and vice versa. The glands of the younger animals seemed to rejuvenate the older ones. The younger mice who had received the old glands, by contrast, aged rapidly and died prematurely...
...software of each of these computer systems, thus getting around an irksome problem that has bedeviled programmers and users since the dawn of the computer age: incompatibility. Incompatibility is the reason that a program written for, say, a Windows machine won't run on a Mac, and vice versa. "Java really levels the playing field," says Scott McNealy, chairman of Sun. "You write a program once, and it will run anywhere, on anything." This, he adds pointedly, could make life very difficult for certain "large applications companies...
Most strikingly, the magazine devotes a disproportionate share of its space to advertisements. The articles act more as breaks from the incessant and unceasing commercialism than vice versa. Such a format stands in stark contrast to that of serious political journals, which place greater emphasis on actually informing the reader about complex political issues than on selling perfume...
...Cambridge Historical Commission had been concerned that the traditional sight lines down Harvard Street from Harvard Square and vice versa were maintained, according to Charles M. Sullivan, executive director of the commission...