Word: wave
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...despite his adulant attitude toward his wave keyboard, keyboard tray and ergonomic chair, Suleiman does see more at work than a simple geometry of elbow angle and chair height: "I always knew from the beginning was that I was never typing enough for it to be purely a result of just typing, so this causal relationship between typing and repetitive strain injury is not what I had. Someone who is on the computer 10 hours a day, just banging away, is one thing, but that wasn t me. Mine came, yes, from doing layout at the Crimson, but primarily from...
...effects of moderation have been wide reaching. Bill Clinton rode the wave of moderation into office in 1992, and politics hasn't looked back since. Political moderation has deprived the nation of two of its most ameliorating influences: the true liberal and the true conservative...
Instead of 12 days of finals preparation, we are loaded down with research papers, problem sets and extra material not covered during the semester. In the space of a second, those two empty weeks are engulfed by a tidal wave of last-minute, high-pressure assignments. Papers are barely due in enough time to catch a night's sleep before sitting down for exams...
...Russian voters have largely voted against the incumbent in each of the two elections since a massive wave of post-Soviet immigrants began arriving in the early '90s. They were indispensable to Netanyahu's nail-biting 51 percent victory in 1996 -- and that may turn out to be his Achilles' heel. For Netanyahu's coalition also depends heavily on the support of ultra-orthodox religious parties, and tensions between the Russians and the ultra-orthodox have erupted into open political warfare in recent weeks...
TRADE WINDS He rode the tech wave skillfully, but now Fidelity Magellan manager Robert Stansky seems a bit wary. Over the past few months, Stansky has lightened his tech load, from 25% to 20%, replacing Intel and Lucent at the top of his portfolio with Citigroup and Time Warner [parent of TIME's publisher]. He still has Microsoft, MCI WorldCom, AOL and Cisco (along with GE, Home Depot, Wal-Mart and Merck) at the core, a strategy that's working; so far, he's still beating the S&P, with a 12% return this year...