Word: tapping
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...gasoline sells at $5. From 1986 to 1989, export earnings dropped from $3.2 billion to $2.5 billion, while costs continued to rise. Total debt, $12 billion, rose from 37% of gross domestic product in 1979 to 130% in 1991, effectively crowding out the private sector's ability to tap into domestic credit sources. "They mortgaged their soul to the West," says a diplomat. Now, with an integrated European market about to become reality, the attention of French businessmen is being distracted away from Africa. And a unified European Community may force Paris to adopt a Europe-first policy, denying...
...soap-opera slickness, Beverly Hills 90210 manages to tap into real concerns of contemporary teens: dating, parents, friends, sex. Melrose Place thus far is tapping into nothing more than worn plot lines from The Young and the Restless. The characters are all gorgeous androids, their life- styles witless L.A. cliches: the first episode ends with the gang frolicking in the swimming pool. There's something ludicrous about seeing these fantasy Californians grapple with real-world problems like paying the rent and sexual harassment at work. Sort of like watching a discussion of the Yugoslav civil war on Studs...
...figured I could test my tolerance for hard-core parody, see if my sense of humor could withstand this gross spectacle which everyone was saying could be the underground's next big thing. The could be genuinely funny, after all, sort of like Spinal Tap with an edge. I mean, they were just benign art students under all the papier mache, right...
...here was something different--teaching fifth graders about dance-theater Harvard students venture into Cambridge schools, get kids to express themselves and put on a show at the end of the year. Here was a challenge--especially for someone whose primary dance experience consisted of tap lessons...
...make him and his partners a profit as well. He also expects to inspire -- indeed, compel -- the existing public school system to change the way it instills knowledge. "Kids today are disconnected from the education process," says Whittle. "We need to figure out how they are motivated and tap into that." At this point Whittle's enterprise is little more than an ambitious blue-sky notion, yet it is attracting considerable interest and some high-level talent: Yale President Benno Schmidt last week resigned his post to head the venture...