Word: whiz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...paperless office remains a secretary's fantasy. Paper-killing technologies like electronic mail and voice % processors go largely unused -- too complicated -- while paper-generating devices like fax machines and copiers are used to the point of abuse. As for the cashless society, most consumers have thumbed down such gee-whiz financial services as electronic banking, home shopping and debit cards...
...involve large state-run companies and secretive interlocking bureaucracies where public scrutiny is limited. All are controversial. The nuclear power program, its detractors claim, is a Big Idea gone haywire: too many reactors producing too much electricity. The state-of-the-art telecommunications network is heavily larded with gee-whiz gadgetry that is often user-mysterious and wastefully expensive. And rather than decentralizing the nation, the high-speed trains emphasize the predominance of Paris...
...Syrian tanks and artillery move back into the heights. But otherwise officials argue that possession of territory no longer contributes much to security in a missile-armed age. As the gulf war proved, one serious threat to Israel apart from ground attack is assault by missiles that can whiz right over a buffer zone. Israel, says a Bush adviser, needs "political security as opposed to garrison security," and political security would be achieved by a peace treaty with Syria. The same argument theoretically would apply to the West Bank, but security is only one reason for Israel's refusal...
...whatever stereotypes Kirkland House has been tagged with--and whether you are a football player, a mathematics whiz, or both, for that matter--K-House is for all people...
Second-year Princeton Coach Bill Tierney's whiz-like recruiting has certainly lifted the Tigers to national prominence in a hurry. This year, Tierney brought in top-goaltending recruit Scott Bacigalupo...