Word: echoed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Opponents say the filter companies' banned lists can also reflect ideological biases. CyberSitter, the most aggressively conservative filtering program, is infamous for blocking access to the National Organization for Women's Website as well as entire Internet providers like Echo, New York City's oldest online community. Gay-themed sites--big surprise--suffer mightily. CyberPatrol blocks the Queer Resources Directory; CyberSitter bans the alt.politics.homosexual newsgroup; SurfWatch blocks ClariNet's AP and Reuters articles about AIDS...
...Conrad, a Democrat from hard-hit North Dakota, of the bill that will provide $5.6 billion in aid for victims of disasters in 35 states: "Many of us wondered if this day was going to come, and here it is." Thousands of families bereft by flood damage can only echo his relief...
Professors echo graduate students' complaints, saying that shopping period wastes a week of class time and often forces them to hire unqualified Teaching Fellows (TFs) when enrollment exceeds expectations...
Ironically, what sets Echo House apart from the hyperrealities of the usual Washington novel is precisely its air of ineffability. Beneath his bulletproof exterior Axel has a vulnerable emotional life. Why exactly does he carry a 50-year torch for a member of the French Resistance who gave him only unfriendly glances during the war? Were her youthful beauty and clarity of purpose an unshakable reminder of his own murky career as a political mechanic...
...history needs comic relief. Just obliges with Mrs. Pfister, fortune-teller to the Washington elite, whose sessions are bugged by government agents, and the "Venerables," a pair of aged columnists who "had been out of step with every administration since Eisenhower's." These geezers and other faded Washingtonians in Echo House are more than welcomed. Just is a sharp-eyed observer and acerbic commentator, but he is also a bighearted host to all the has-beens and will-bes gathered in this roomy and inviting novel...