Word: blip
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...down. It's the Hang Seng. The "Footsie." The Dow. It's the tail wagging the dog, the Correction of '97. A record slide! A record rise! A blip. It's not a matter of being confused ? it's about recognizing confusion when you see it. And right now, the markets (and their attendant swarms of pundits) are lousy with it. But like a smooth rock in a wind-tossed bay; like the "Money Honey" on the crowded exchange floor; the right movie can provide sanctuary ? and understanding. Go back home. Go back to Trading Places. All the answers...
...will the current blip on the sales charts really endure? Zomnir hopes so. "The whole earring thing was considered wild and crazy 10 years ago. Now it's common," she says. But she concedes that men are "not big on maintenance"--we're talking tedium: a trim, a filing, cuticle removal, and then a base coat, two primary coats and a top clear coat, each and every week. On the other hand, she says, "guys can get away with chipped nails more than women...
...lowest percentage of women among Harvard's nine schools. Fadule said women have historically comprised about 29 percent of the school. Last year's low number was only a "blip," she said...
...result, the rankings released during the first week of school amounted to more than a blip on the radar of the 1996-97 school year...
...hear of heaven is when somebody has died." David Wells, a theology professor at Massachusetts' Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, notes, "We would expect to hear of it in the Evangelical churches, but I don't hear it at all." He pauses. "I don't think heaven is even a blip on the Christian screen, from one end of the denominational spectrum to the other. The more perplexing question is, What explains this...