Word: wave
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That deal was the catalyst for a tidal wave of change which, in the last five years, has brought an all-star team of Afro-American scholars to Harvard, earned the department national commendations and could place it in the position to affect American social policy on race and welfare...
...still immature pharmaceutical industry. Moreover, the development of the drugs vastly enlarged the vistas of medical scientists, calling for heavy financial commitments and eventual massive infusions of government funding. It was this alliance of government, university laboratories and the private sector that became the driving force of the wave of invention and refinement that has ranged from the submicroscopic, molecular level of genetic engineering to the spectacular arena of major-organ replacements...
...slacken. When seniors forget to drink, dehydration can set in without their being aware of it, inducing a drop in blood volume that causes a greater sensitivity to heat changes. The result can be as dramatic as the unexpected deaths among the aged that attended Chicago's heat wave last summer...
Exploding for six goals and leading the attack for the Crimson was top-scoring sophomore Michael Zimmerman. Not far behind Zimmerman was junior driver Andy Davis, who added five goals to the tidal wave which swamped the Engineers...
...West this summer provide a dramatic illustration of how vulnerable these systems have become. "The scale," says transmission expert John Kappenman of Minnesota Power and Light, "is scary." Financial losses alone would amount to billions of dollars, and if the blackouts occurred during a cold snap, or a heat wave, there could be a human toll as well...