Word: bucks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, the gossamer wedding, the fairy tale's foundation in reality, was a joyous event. Charles was happy because he thought he was pleasing his parents, particularly his father. Diana was happy because she had just received a buck-up note from Charles. He wrote of his pride in her and went on to give her some advice: "Just look 'em in the eye and knock 'em dead...
...more from ourselves." While it sounds like an apt theme for the '90s, the problem is that Alexander applies it mainly to needy Americans who don't vote Republican. He has a radical plan to phase out the federal safety net over five years, for example, and pass the buck to local charities. Yet Alexander leaves much larger entitlements that go to the better-off Americans, including Medicare and Social Security, untouched...
...hope Harvard will buck the trend by keeping its early action program intact, since the program provides such a large pool of applicants. As we all know, large application pools guarantee magnificent classes of Harvardians for generations to come...
Sharon Stone's presence on screen at times outweighs even de Niro's. She is perfectly suited to play the local hustler, Ginger, who has everyone in her back pocket, and never passes up the opportunity to make a buck. Her only weakness is a completely unexplained affection for her pimp, played by James Woods...
...machine unless it goes on sale. "It's something that would be good for us long term," says Draheim, a research director for the Chamber of Commerce in Omaha, Nebraska. "But what we spend on it is money that doesn't buy groceries." Also watching every buck is Anne Branigan, a Chamber of Commerce colleague whose husband recently lost his job in a corporate downsizing. The couple plans to spend no more than $400 this Christmas, down from $800 to $1,000 in previous years...