Word: blowingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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George magazine's new Executive Editor Richard P. Blow told conference- goers about dropping out of graduate school at Harvard after three years. He called it one of the best decisions he'd ever made...
...where a private jet flew him and two women, Mona Kim and Jackie Ju, to Rome, along with 25 suitcases and that stash of diamonds. Then he jaunted through Italy and Germany in chauffeured limousines, steadfastly maintaining to whoever would listen that his case was a misunderstanding that would blow over...
...stock you bought dropped 30% yesterday because it failed to meet Wall Street's exacting expectations. Ouch--you've just been scalded by what we call an earnings blow-up. Now what? Do you lie there inert, screaming "Where's the rest of my stock?" Nah. In the trenches of capitalism where I toil, one of these high-explosive blow-ups hits me monthly, obliterating any hope of a quick profit, or perhaps producing a staggering unrealized loss. IBM, Xerox, Unisys and Lexmark have all detonated recently. First, take heart. You aren't the only one dumb enough...
Unfortunately, most blow-ups are a combination of factors that don't easily line up in those two camps. Say demand has slowed for a product. If the item is tech, that's nasty. It means you will probably have to take the hit--unless you can wait for a new product cycle. If one is just around the corner, I use the break to buy more, as I have often done with Intel. If the next product looks hopelessly stalled or way out in the future, I take a pass...
...history of fashion began in Paris and ended in the United States, though by the time the Americans had entered the scene, the party was mostly over. The "clothes horses" of the '80s "were known to blow $100,000 or more on a couture wardrobe on a single Paris trip." These trans-Atlantic pirates, in the era of fashion news programs like CNN's "Style with Elsa Klensch" became the final guard of a dying industry, and Agins argues that we (you, me and her) looked up to them until our trust was broken. Haute Couture had never resembled...