Word: wised
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anniversary of elder Kim's death, North Korean television showed the younger Kim seated at a dais with other dignitaries as a military band played a patriotic song. "The revolutionary cause pioneered by President Kim Il Sung is now being successfully carried forward under the wise guidance of the great leader, Comrade Kim Jong Il," Yang Hyong Sop, North Korea's parliament speaker, said during the service. The uncharismatic and inarticulate Kim Jong Il's role had been unclear since the demise of his forceful father -- the only leader North Korea had ever known...
Something about the combination of sex and computers, however, seems to make otherwise worldly-wise adults a little crazy. How else to explain the uproar surrounding the discovery by a U.S. Senator--Nebraska Democrat James Exon--that pornographic pictures can be downloaded from the Internet and displayed on a home computer? This, as any computer-savvy undergrad can testify, is old news. Yet suddenly the press is on alert, parents and teachers are up in arms, and lawmakers in Washington are rushing to ban the smut from cyberspace with new legislation--sometimes with little regard to either its effectiveness...
...Bible's Book of Revelation, with a literal expectation of Armageddon. Occasionally, as Koernke went on and on about some grim fantasy, Martinez feared he "might have some sort of chemical imbalance." But the two stayed friends. Martinez was Koernke's best man when he married Nancy Wise, a home-economics student he had met while peddling chocolate-chip cookies at an rotc bake sale. At about the same time, however, Koernke's college career derailed. Nancy Koernke attributes this to the effect of nasa cutbacks in the mid-'70s. "He didn't seem as happy after that," she says...
Critics say the appropriators may get their comeuppance on the House floor. Indeed, the committee got a taste of the battles to come last Friday, when the House killed the committee's funding for the Army museum -- a move that Livingston called "penny-wise and pound-foolish and meanspirited." This week G.O.P. freshmen will lead a fight to undo OPIC...
...americans to rebuild our television system. Translating the public interest into a commitment to our children will take time and public debate. We challenge the American people to demand that debate and participate in it, for in the long run it will take a combination of broad education, wise parenting, corporate responsibility, and smart and forceful lawmaking to improve children's telecommunications...