Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...capitalists--those who started trading during this great, four-year, 20%-plus S&P bonanza--may have stumbled on a bit of knowledge we old-timers can't seem to get into our heads. They regard bonds as risky, stocks as safe. Nothing could be more wealth-creating than those Gibraltars, the Net stocks, and nothing more dangerous than that 30-year piece of paper issued by that barely credit-worthy entity, the United States of America...
...finally hit his desk in 1998, according to his own testimony, the software titan refused to read a word of it. Given the chance to reassess his videotaped Q. and A. in the light of its disastrous courtroom debut, CEO Gates conceded only that he should have "smiled a bit." As Gates the author would have told him: "A CEO avoiding bad news is the beginning...
...believe we acted swiftly," insists National Security Adviser Sandy Berger. "I reject the notion there was any dragging of feet." That also sounded a bit odd, coming from an official who was first briefed on the likelihood of espionage at Los Alamos three years ago. Nor was this the first case of Chinese snooping at U.S. weapons labs. During the 1970s and again in the '80s, Taiwanese-born American scientists delivered to China the secrets of, first, the neutron bomb and then laser technology...
George Stephanopoulos, promoting his new book, was doing his bit for the cause last week, but to most sensible news viewers the Monica Lewinsky scandal is over. Which means that the TV pundits are having to get reacquainted with issues like school vouchers, and the all-news channels are discovering once again that--except for the times when we're unraveling a President's sex life, watching a former NFL star beat a murder rap or bombing Iraq--not all that many people want to watch news...
...enjoyed calling him perhaps a bit too much, was amazingly introspective about his hedonistic life. He said he thought his legacy would be having shown "that there's another ethical way of living your life without being married." So I asked him if he thought his was a life well lived. Had he chosen the right American Dream--the mansion and the babes--or should he have chosen the suburban house and the nuclear family? "This is better," he said without hesitation. "Because you're not living your life through other people...