Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thing") or to "unlock value for investors" ("We made stupid acquisitions, and now we're dumping them"). 3M had to make hard choices about where to invest its money. Imation lost out because of its lousy earnings compared with other businesses. So out the door it goes, with a bunch of products and patents and three years of prominent use of the 3M brand name with them...
Cambridge is an overwhelmingly and aggressively liberal city, so its few Republicans are almost by nature a hardy bunch...
...design his re-election strategy will leave the Russian people feeling duped and betrayed, further alienating them from Yeltsin without gaining any Brownie points for the U.S. Imagine that the tables are turned: Bill Clinton wins the election in November, and Pravda prints a major story on how a bunch of Russians sitting in a hotel room in Washington drank vodka and guided his campaign. These musketeers are then credited with achieving Clinton's victory. Unthinkable, isn't it? HANS G. ROENAU Tiburon, California...
Then came the lawyers' turn to examine the bunch of us. The prosecutor was up first and he was hopeless: he stammered, shifted his weight, smiled awkwardly and generally seemed to be a sincere man who, try as he might, could not feign sincerity. We took pity on him and gave him easygoing, helpful answers to his fairly predictable questions ("Do you all understand what 'presumption of innocence' means?" and so on). It was actually fortunate that we got our fill of "generic" courtroom questions from him because we would get no such things from the defense attorney...
...years ago Ross Perot spent $63 million on his own presidential campaign. Dick Lamm, worthy citizen though he may be, has raised only about $100,000. Where would he get the rest of the money? I'd have a strong suspicion that he intends to get it from a bunch of us party loyalists...