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Word: bozos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...here. Microsoft is hoping to cash in--again--by selling "intelligent agents" that will help sort all forms of digital clutter, including E-mail. Joe's a bore, so relegate his notes to the bottom of the list. Shoot to the top anything from the boss. Primitive versions, called bozo filters, are already available to help deflect some of the more predictable detritus by sender and topic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOST IN THE E-MAIL | 4/21/1997 | See Source »

...suppose that, all in all, watching Chicago Hope is probably not the best way to prepare for surgery. Just about all the doctors do on that program is complain about their lives or argue with one another about who left the scalpel in some poor bozo's lower intestine. I pointed out a long time ago that if anybody you knew in Chicago found himself in that hospital, the best thing you could do for him would be to put him in an ambulance and get him across town to the doctors on ER. Those guys seem to cure just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A CUT ABOVE THE REST | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

...election day, Bob Dole has decided to try a little less tenderness. On a campaign swing through New Jersey, Dole said he would hit harder at President Clinton's ethics in next Wednesday's Presidential debate in San Diego. Dole responded to a shouted plea for him to "Get Bozo out of the White House," with "Bozo's on his way out." The feisty remark signals a harsher turn in Dole's campaign style as he is seen to be running out of time to make a dent in Clinton's support. Dole said he was ready to "go back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sometimes Shaky Politics of Civility | 10/8/1996 | See Source »

...possibility that this all has to do with sex. After all, even Freud may have said, "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." To which Jung may or may not have added, "Sometimes it's an affectation." To which my cousin Sam would have said, "Or a stogie, bozo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALL PUFFED UP | 7/15/1996 | See Source »

Which is why he expected his FBI file to be among those collected by Bozo the Clown and the other security specialists hired by the Clinton White House. "You'll notice they only had files through the letter G," Hammer told me at lunch one day, shortly after the story hit the papers. "Otherwise my FBI file would have been there. I've been hitting them pretty hard." I nodded. I didn't have the heart to remind him what we've known for 25 years: Hammer doesn't have an FBI file...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAMMER: A FOLK TALE | 7/8/1996 | See Source »

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