Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Money keeps pouring into stock funds--an estimated $16 billion last month--an emblem of the public's love affair with the market...
These three are cheerleaders to depressive Mike (Favreau), an actor-comedian who is having trouble getting over a fizzled affair. Six months later, he's still miserable and can't stop talking about it. Each buddy has to be Mike's personal shrink; every potential date becomes his antsy big sister. He can't follow the rules of romantic pursuit. You're not supposed to call someone you've just met until two days have passed; it's uncool. Yet after getting a promising phone number, he rushes home to leave a voice message, half a dozen times, becoming more...
These crosscurrents reflect a particularly stormy period in America's love affair with charge cards. With more than 1.1 billion pieces of plastic already crowding consumers' wallets (the typical user carries six or seven different cards), the 7,000 banks and companies that issue all this credit are struggling to protect their profits and gain whatever edge they can. For some this has meant flashy new offerings like the $100,000 (as in credit line) Platinum Plus card that M.B.N.A. America Bank of Wilmington, Delaware, launched earlier this year. (Just tell that Rolls-Royce dealer...
...Court Judge Edmund Ludwig in Philadelphia ruled that the Umpires Association would be in violation of its collective-bargaining agreement if it staged a walkout, and so the A.L. umps reluctantly showed up in Cleveland, Ohio, and Arlington, Texas. But we haven't heard the last of the Alomar Affair. This could go beyond beyond-beyond...
...Madame Vasso" Kortesis, in which the two use kitschy code: referring to Di as "Blondie" and Fergie's men by numbers. Her ex, Prince Andrew, is No. 2; lover-in-her-dreams-only John F. Kennedy Jr., No. 9. Then, Fergie stopped trying to block a book about her affair with toe-sucking John Bryan (No. 3). She couldn't face testifying in public. Fergie's next literary effort, two children's books, will be lucky to generate such press...