Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brain were changing, however. Ordinarily made up of tiny strands of intertwined amino acids, the complex molecules had begun to assume a very different shape, collapsing into sticky sheets. Before long, these gummy structures began to clump sloppily together, creating pits and divots where there had once been vital brain tissue. Within months Hall was delusional and bedridden. Not long after, he was dead...
...Inaugural Address, Bill Clinton has been flight-testing an array of lofty themes and presidential postures designed to make him look good in the history books. In his recent speeches, Clinton has styled himself as the National Unifier, a Reconciliation Man who will show America the way to the "vital center," where good things get done. Aides say he sees himself as T.R. with a drawl: just as Teddy Roosevelt used his bully pulpit to lead the country through a perilous transformation from agrarian to industrial society, so Clinton would use his to lead America from the industrial...
...promised only modest enterprises and gestures during the campaign, and so the 53rd Inaugural is built to scale: smaller, shorter, cheaper, spread over three days, with eight tents on the Mall instead of 65. Gone is Barbra Streisand, who decided to attend a movie awards ceremony instead. At the "vital center" of this Inaugural are such artists as cellist Yo-Yo Ma, dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov and country music singer Trisha Yearwood. Cymbals and symbols have been muted: there will be no walk across the Memorial Bridge arm in arm with hundreds of schoolchildren while bells ring from coast to coast...
...wires every day, hoping to turn bad news into good. No sooner does she spot notices of layoffs at other companies than her employer, software developer CSC Continuum, takes out help-wanted ads in the stricken communities. That's fortunate for people who have been laid off and vital for her company, which is scrambling to hire 300 in the next six months. "We are in critical [hiring] mode," Gallagher says...
...goals Christopher announced for American foreign policy in 1996--pursuing peace in vital regions of the world, diffusing transnational security threats and promoting open markets--could just as easily hold for 1997 as well...