Word: wave
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...technical workers (HUCTW), agrees with Dunlop. "There's a trend among academics and scholars who write about management--everyone's writing about the flattening of hierarchy and more employee involvement," he says. "Ideas like that are flying around all the time. Bill Clinton's election...started a whole new wave...
...regulating cell division, in some cases stopping cell growth when DNA is damaged. When such genes are themselves deranged, genetic errors can rapidly accumulate. But the newly discovered defect is not in a damage- control gene. Instead, it seems to be a direct agent of damage that somehow unleashes wave upon wave of DNA mutations over the course of a lifetime. As a result, a single inherited trait leads to "tens of thousands of alterations throughout the genome," Vogelstein marvels...
...heterosexuals: a quickie wedding capital. In a ground-breaking decision, the Hawaii supreme court has declared that barring gay marriages probably violates state equal-protection guarantees and ordered the state to justify the ban under the strictest judicial standards. If the ruling holds, Hawaii can expect a tidal wave of fiances; the other 49 states are likely to get a big legal headache. Even if they refuse to follow Hawaii's lead, they will have to decide whether or not to honor its gay marriages...
...wanted many layers of seclusion that you could still see through, to symbolize the lack of privacy and to turn the layers into fantasy." He shot hundreds of photographs, etched paintings onto film and fed the images into four giant projectors. This technique may be the next wave in musicals: Tommy, which opened last week, uses somewhat the same device, if not so spellbindingly...
...based on women having an unrealistically long life-span. Environmental organizations tend to present the most alarming scenarios to pump up the threat of global warming. Hard-line politicians and gun lobbyists frequently cite figures creating the impression that the country is in the midst of an unprecedented crime wave, and yet homicides and other crimes seem to be declining, according to law-enforcement agencies...