Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Before Americans were content to watch the President in his fishbowl, open for public view. Now the President is shoved under an X-ray machine and thrown onto a psychiatrist's couch, bringing his most personal details ("Boxers or briefs, Mr. Clinton?") under scrutiny. Maybe to run for President, you have to be an exibitionist. Or at least you have to be nuts...
...units would stand and fight. And those well-trained divisions, with thousands of tanks and artillery pieces, would maul the guerrillas in what intelligence analysts believe would become a Middle East version of the Bay of Pigs. Faced with that possibility, it is no wonder the Clinton Administration seems content to let Public Enemy No. 1 remain at large...
...quality vs. quantity. There doesn't have to be a lot of software if the software is good. I trust that the Macintosh market share will grow so that the industry is not forever slowed down by the anchor that's holding back innovation. For now, I'm content that the Mac may not be the computer for everyone. After all, not everyone drives a Mercedes or a Rolls. JOYCE RUDOWSKI Cincinnati, Ohio...
...vicinity of their bodies, they will reject mysticism and move toward more rational therapy. And when herbal medicine devotees become aware that any useful ingredient in their unregulated leaves, stem and root mixtures can be isolated and made available as regulated drugs, labeled with full information about content and proper dosage, they will begin making fewer trips to the health-food store...
...engineering to create what Reid Lifset, editor of the Journal of Industrial Ecology, calls "designer waste streams." Consider all that stalk, or stover, that every corn plant grows along with its kernels. Scientists at Monsanto and Heartland Fiber are working toward engineering corn plants with the kind of fiber content that paper companies would find attractive. So long as the genetic tinkering poses no ecological threat, that approach could tap into a huge stream of agricultural waste, turning some of it into an industrial ingredient...