fad Her legacy can be seen in every presidential candidates who discuss their marital problems on TV to the fad for crash diets.

feat It's worth noting that establishing growth at a company the size of IBM-with＄72 billion in sales last year,it is the 18th largest on the planet-is no mean feat.

forum She helped bring such topics as child abuse,homosexuality and marital dysfunction out of the closet and into the public forum． fray Members of the NASA-led team arrived in Washington fully prepared to enter the fray.

gadget To see about this technology for myself,I spent some time using one gadget,Philips Magnavox's WEBTV.

gambit Specter's pro-choice gambit may be less appealing when women are reminded of his role as Anita Hill's grand inquisitor during the Clarence Thomas hearings． geek Programmers who find the market for Windows software increasingly crowded and unprofitable see fresh opportunities to make their mark in Java．―The geeks are buzzed…It's like a whole world just opened up to us． glut The House of Representatives last week passed a series of legal-reform bills intended to discourage frivolous lawsuits,of which there is alleged to be a glut.

gorge In the interest of participatory journalism,I swallowed my rising gorge and tried(Doom computer game)again.

hacker The transformation that has set Microsoft on the road to a Net-based future has also completed Gates' beatification as not just a great hacker but also a world-class CEO． hardler Some captured radio operators,ordered by the North Vietnamese to ask for more agents,managed to signal to their CIA handlers with code words that they were being held． heretic He has been called a fascist,a heretic and shenjingbing,a lunatic.

holdout The R.S.V.P. S are in,and 196 of the 197 nations invited to Atlanta have said yes．(Even holdout North Korea is wavering．) hook-up MCI and the Japanese telephone company KDD donated an estimated＄20 million to the cost of the 45-megabit-per-second data hook-up． iconoclast Yet this unbending iconoclast lived a life of such relentless personal rectitude and brought such unmatched excellence to his many Olympic races that he won far more of our experts' votes as the greatest Olympian than any other athlete． indignity This son of a Georgia sharecropper endured unspeakable indignities and taunts to become baseball's first black player.

insurgent Politicians had no credibility with slap-together committees of insurgents.

interlocutor Without America,Great Britain and France cannot sustain the political balance in Western Europe;Germany would be tempted by nationalism;Russia would lack a global interlocutor.