Word: virtual
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dietl's friendly relations with members of the mob and his problems with the police station hierarchy. It looks like screenplay writer Jeremy Iacone, however, relied on more than the book for inspiration. He seems to have borrowed from a multitude of sources in constructing his story, creating a virtual menagerie of unconnected events and characters...
Beanie Babies? Ho-hum. Tamagotchis? No way. This year's toy craze could well be the Game Boy game Pokemon ($30), which challenges kids to collect up to 150 funny-looking creatures with names like Charmeleon and Squirtle while traveling through a mazelike virtual landscape. Each Pokemon has different strengths and can help players capture more creatures in battle. With more than 9 million Pokemon games sold in Japan, Nintendo is betting that U.S. kids will be equally impressed...
...held a huge demonstration at the dedication of the Engelhardt Library at the Kennedy School, which was funded by a white South African gold magnate who had made millions out of the virtual slavery of black South Africans...
...first and finest American boy" now seemed, to many Americans, a Nazi fellow traveler, an anti-Semite, a virtual traitor. F.D.R. kept him out of the war until 1944, when Lindbergh went to the Pacific on an aviation fact-finding tour; he contrived to fly a number of combat missions and even shot down a Japanese fighter--"in self-defense...
...barriers around the Washington Monument, increased airport security and decreased access to certain offices and revered sites. Surely this barricading offers some protection, But something will be lost when third-graders go home and describe a Washington Monument not as a serene pinnacle to American glory but as a virtual maze of uniforms and restrictions, recalling that it was surrounded not by flags but by concrete...