Word: trait
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Lynch brings this canny naivete, this promiscuous curiosity, to every aspect of his life and work. It could be a trait bred from childhood -- a sylvan youth of eagle-scout badges and family camping trips, spent amid the Pacific Northwest trees that today loom over Twin Peaks. "My father was a scientist for the Forest Service," Lynch says. "He would drive me through the woods in his green Forest Service truck, over dirt roads, through the most beautiful forests where the trees are very tall and shafts of sunlight come down and in the mountain streams the rainbow trout leap...
...important to make a distinction between a life-threatening disease and a trait. In our society, prenatal diagnosis followed by pregnancy termination has been deemed acceptable when the consequences to the unborn child are devastating disease and early death. But now we come to sex selection. Sex is not a disease. Yet it is possible, using simple diagnostic techniques, to determine the sex of an unborn child well before the time when pregnancy termination is no longer allowable. There are certainly instances in genetics clinics where couples come in with just that idea in mind. Legally there is nothing criminal...
...attracted by the primary colors of some of the envelopes, I occasionally make use of this privilege. Recently, I lay my hands on the Harper-Collins Fall 1990 Catalogue of hard-cover books, and since I had nothing better to do (having nothing better to do is a distinguishing trait of journalists) I began to flip through...
Positive thinking got Aquino where she is today. It has always been her most striking trait. But now it has been tempered by the experience of governing, the harsh realities of her country's condition and the perspective she has gained as the first of a swelling corps of leaders propelled into authority by people power. For better or worse, she is their role model. She is, in effect, writing the handbook on how to hang on even as she does...
...decade: "connecting innovation with existing business." In an era of global competition, fresh ideas have become the most precious raw materials. That means companies suddenly want their employees to think on their own, which calls for enormous change at firms where imagination was once considered a subversive trait. "In the past four years, creativity has been mainstreamed," says Roger von Oech, who runs Creative Think, a Menlo Park, Calif., outfit specializing in shaking out new ideas...