Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most of the rice. ButI didn't realize until a week later that I hadcommitted an absolute mortal error, I had horriblyoffended my host. Because, of course, you're notsupposed to eat the rice It's there as aconclusion. To eat any more than a little bit isto signal that you're hungry and that the guy wasa cheapskate, and he didn't give you enough food...
...actually decided to start drinking. The fact is that those of us who, for whatever reason, need time to decide whether to drink while underage are too often not given that time. Instead, we quickly see that to "fit in" at Harvard, we need to drink, at least a bit. If we don't, we risk being ostracized and laughed at, scorned and ignored. This need not be the case. The received wisdom should be this: "Drinking is not necessary to have fun or to enjoy college. If you do decide to drink, drink responsibly and respect the choice...
...usual, with tall stories of the sublime and the ridiculous. The buttoned-up Independent carried an "exclusive" leak on plans for Tony Blair's modernized House of Lords, in which their lordships will be chosen from the public by lottery. The tabloid Daily Mail went for something a bit fishier: "Red Herring Returns After 500 years...
Change is in the air, however: The club's general manager tells me the club is in the process of expanding the ladies' locker room, to accommodate the increasing proportion of women members, a shift which is expected to continue. And so, on a delayed schedule and a bit more quietly, the Harvard Club in 1998 seems to be dealing with the same sorts of hiccups and dislocations that swept through Harvard 25 years ago. Ms. Simpson seems to confirm that the new Harvard is making its presence felt when we work our way into a discussion of the club...
That is not a minor hit. It would mean gross domestic product's increasing considerably less than the robust 3% or so that it might otherwise have managed, unemployment's rising a bit rather than sinking to still further lows, and a distinct slowdown in corporate profits--especially among companies that had been exporting $300 billion or more a year to the Asian region. On the other hand, sagging demand from Asia is contributing to a worldwide deflation (a term rarely heard since the 1930s) in commodity prices, especially oil. And that is helping to douse what little inflationary fire...