Word: addicting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...painted by Elliot T. Weiss '99. "Maybe in another attempt to corner some area of the market, they left some ingredient off." The hypothesis hearkens back to the rumors that the soft drink Coca-Cola had a little something extra in it's original formula to attract and then addict its buyers. "Maybe it's some government conspiracy tested in small towns," Weiss adds. "I suddenly saw Surge a year ago in a rural town in the Carolinas." It seems the drink was given a trial period in small towns to see if it would catch on. Or were these...
What happened? In part, I began to get over my trepidation and to realize that alcohol is not a demon in a bottle. Drinking in moderation, I finally conceded, won't change your life or make you an addict or a bad person...
...shift, another name kept popping up: O.J. "Politically Incorrect" host Bill Maher on Clinton's impassioned denial: "He then vowed to never stop looking for the real adulterer." Maher added that Clinton will try to use the State of the Union address to "erase his image as a sex addict and a liar, and restore his image as a long-winded bore...
...predicament is all the more surprising since he made $100,000 on his book. With that sort of pot, how could a man with proven skill--a seemingly perfectly sane man who is neither an alcoholic nor a drug addict--possibly find himself homeless for the second time in five years? The simple answer is that, without additional income from a steady job, $100,000 is consumed rather quickly by a middle-class life-style. For starters, income taxes took $22,000 off the top. Eighner ran through the rest in less than three years. He rented a house...
...People have this notion of California as kind of flaky and moronic," says Jesse O. Kellerman '01, who is originally from Los Angeles. "Sometimes I'll play into it, `cause I get sick of explaining to people that I'm not a drug addict or that I don't go to breakfast with movie stars, that I didn't go to school with Dylan...