Word: decayed
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...boom-and-bust '80s may be history, but the banking rough-and-tumble is + now more pronounced than ever. In the U.S. the battered industry is selling assets to recapitalize itself after the debacles of Third World debt, the decay in value of high-risk junk bonds used for corporate buyouts and the collapse of the real estate market in several sections of the country. The mighty Japanese, now far and away the world's biggest banking players, are also being squeezed. Japanese banks face rising interest rates that boost their costs at home and new international capital-reserve requirements...
...Beyond the quirk of a single hand, skill takes over and twirls its mustache. The trouble is that a single hand can run you out of town. Last year's winner, Phil Hellmuth Jr., 24, a tall, weedy youth whose soft face projects an unsettling expression of sweet decay, jukes and twitches to the music of his Walkman. He piles up a fortress of chips, then watches it disintegrate. The last of it backs two nines. He pulls a third nine, but his opponent gets a third queen. Television crews have filmed almost every hand he has played...
Ever since its development in the 1940s, radiocarbon dating has been a vital tool for historians and paleontologists trying to pinpoint the ages of everything from ancient animal bones to prehistoric human settlements to Egyptian mummies. By measuring the decay of the natural radioactive isotope carbon 14, which almost all organisms ingest while they are alive, scientists can estimate how long it has been since an animal or plant died...
...technique the geologists used was based on another sort of radioactive decay. Organisms contain traces of uranium, which degrades into thorium. The rate of decay is known, and by measuring the relative amounts of the two substances in a sample, age can be accurately calculated...
...Public Interest, finds it ironic that "the same companies that are making cereals with whole grain, lots of dried fruit, high fiber and few preservatives for adults are still using sugar and refined flour and artificial flavoring for kids." Most everyone agrees the sweet stuff promotes tooth decay. "I tell kids they should throw away the cereal and eat the boxes," says Richard Holstein, a New Jersey children's dentist. "At least they'd get some fiber...