Word: potently
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Would that it were so easy. The Internet is as persistent as it is potent, an indelible and uncontainable presence in the culture. In fact, the Internet isn't separate from the culture at all; it is the culture. All the trash, flotsam and spillage of our society gets its moment there, where the tiniest obsession has its spot on the shelf, right next to Bach and charity and sunsets. The Internet lets a million flowers bloom, and a million weeds...
...beyond random shoulder surfing and convenient-credit-card denial, we parents have a more potent range of options than we may be aware of. "A lot of parents might be somewhat computerphobic," says Ed Donnerstein, co-director of the Center for Communication and Social Policy at the University of California at Santa Barbara, explaining why we seem so undone by the perceived threats of the Web. But it doesn't take a degree in electrical engineering to know, for instance, that your kids should be admonished never to reveal personal information to anyone online without your permission--the digital equivalent...
...majority produced no active sperm after three months. The sperm loss was temporary, but the side effects required subjects to use testosterone patches in order to keep their manly form. To overcome this marketing dilemma, we asked the fertile minds at various ad agencies to think up some potent campaigns...
...Brown, police chief of this tie-dye-and-tofu town, set out to flout federal law. But here he is, a 53-year-old father of two who has never inhaled, issuing laminated and embossed get-out-of-jail-free cards for partakers of the infamous Humboldt bud, a potent local variety of marijuana. "You can photograph me," he tells a reporter genially, "but not reclining on a bearskin rug and smoking a joint...
PAIN-KILLER PROBLEM The superaspirin Celebrex, touted as a potent but easy-on-the-stomach pain-killer for arthritis, may be linked to 10 deaths and 11 cases of gastrointestinal hemorrhages, according to the Wall Street Journal. What's more, five of the deaths may have been due to gastrointestinal bleeding. Monsanto, the drug's manufacturer, says there's no proof that Celebrex actually caused any deaths. Plenty of folks use the drug: 2.5 million prescriptions have been written since it was introduced in January...