Word: ah
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ah yes, the big one, the economy. Reagan's favorite question in 1984 was "Are you better off now than you were four years ago?" That will hardly work for Bush with the American economy floundering as it is. He's trying for an election-year recovery, of course, with the tiresome executive tradition of asking the Fed to lower interest rates every four years, but quick improvement is unlikely, and the recession has dragged on for so long that it has become a part of the American mindset. (The recession is not completely the President's fault, of course...
...their course along the inlet, and Raffi remarks how much he likes them. Reminded that they depend on fossil fuels, he smiles ruefully. "I know, I know," says the man in the child. Then the child in the man, who has given pleasure to millions of others, asks, "Ah, when will I understand...
...Ah, the conveniences of the electronic age! At a time when everything from diaper and sushi deliveries to kinky romantic trysts can be had with a few touch tones, yet another novel entry has arrived in this vibrant market-by- wire. Why spend hours traveling to the doctor's office, leafing through out-of-date magazines, waiting for the healer to spare a moment of precious, not to mention expensive time, when one can now get instant medical gratification over the phone? Why not simply dial...
...Ah, you see," explained a U.N. official last week as he gleefully paraphrased George Bush, "what goes on inside Iraq is an internal matter. Technically, under international law, the Kurds aren't refugees at all. They are displaced persons...
...Ah. He didn't want my wisdom. He wanted a sound bite. Or, in the outmoded argot of print, a quote. Under the conventions of American journalism, his insight was worthless to him until he could get someone else to utter it, thus conferring on his nugget some spurious authority and relieving himself of any taint of opinion or bias. I could just as easily quote him to the same purpose. Someday I will...