Word: fooling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hollywood's program libraries, production studios and promotional muscle, when the behemoths put their full weight online, they'll be some of the biggest dogs on the block. What's more, predicting a paradigm shift based on a declining American appetite for ordinary TV may prove to be a fool's errand. Still, CBS's $36 billion price tag derives from its status as a network that dominates Madison Avenue's ad dollars, not as just another player in a new and unpredictable ball game. "The Web turns viewers into the programmers and the network," says Wagner. "That's what...
...only possible complication. Stanford's Robert Malenka has shown that the NMDA receptor is involved in sensitizing the brain to drugs like cocaine, heroin and amphetamines, and others are investigating its role in triggering chronic pain--two more indications that it may not be wise to try to fool Mother Nature...
...decent person who doesn't own a firearm for self-preservation in today's "violence solves all" society is either a fool or a coward. JOE MONSTWILLO St. Louis...
...long I've been underwater. I don't even know if I can see anything. I've forgotten that I have an expert partner who would save me if I were in any real danger. I'm trapped inside a boat in strong currents, far from home--a reckless fool. Then I give another mighty yank, and the skirt pops off. I shoot to the surface, a flustered human cannonball...
Although most tourists are easy to pick out of a crowd--such staples of tourist gear like cameras and fanny packs instantly reveal their true nature--there are a few slippery ones who try to mask their true selves. Summer interns still adjusting to inside-the-beltway mores may fool other tourists, but locals can spot them for the alien creatures they...