Word: networked
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Tumors, it turns out, cannot grow much beyond the size of a peppercorn without an ever-expanding network of blood vessels. Clinicians are now testing more than a dozen treatments aimed at halting that process, including some old-line drugs that have turned out to have anti-angiogenic properties. Thalidomide, which caused devastating birth defects in some 12,000 children worldwide before it was withdrawn in the early 1960s, is finding a new lease on life against multiple myeloma and liver cancers. Pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb is testing an antiangiogenic drug that was initially developed to keep cancer from...
...owns it all. The print magazines. The news channels. The record labels. The movie studios. The WB network. The Time Warner cable lines, which they've promised the FTC they'll share with the other children. Ted Turner. Madonna. Bugs Bunny. James Earl Jones's voice...
...network that pays you to argue with Greta Van Susteren in a fake courtroom on "Burden of Proof" is not paying you to be responsible. They're paying you for answers, now: If the answers are correct, that's gravy, but if you throw in a few ass-covering caveats, nobody'll remember in the morning. He finally came up with the general impression that the case was being overturned and sent back to Florida, where recounts might or might not resume, but - that classic hedge of Postelection 2000 - "this isn't over...
...went, for a period of a half hour or so, during which you could see a consensus developing as, network by network, analysts hit on SCOTUS passages that more or less put the kibosh on further recounts. Which is not to say there wasn't plenty of room for interpretation. By 11 or so, there was agreement that it was all but over. Or that it wasn't! By just past 11, MSNBC was, at least on and off, calling George W. Bush the "President-elect." Or he wasn't! Maybe Al Gore would wait to answer...
...world. But who would have thought they'd manage to forget so fast? The fact is, viewers like me, and I suspect most of us, don't reward them for being slow and right: at 10 p.m., I was clicking the remote like a videogame junkie, instantly firing any network that wasn't giving me information, right or wrong...