Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact, there is a slight shift in library priorities. During the '80s the emphasis was on restoration. Gregorian liked to call the main building the "people's palace"; the library became perhaps the city's most fashionable benefit cause. But, reflecting the Bush era, the new buzz word is education, the province of the branches. "Essentially, we serve grammar school and junior high kids," says Healy, "and the agenda is not what you read but that you read...
Surprisingly, Hollywood can usually judge a film's long-term fate by its , performance on its first weekend in the theaters. On Saturday mornings Hollywood's phone lines buzz with the sound of moguls offering congratulations or condolences based on industry polls of Friday-night receipts. With so much money at stake, this summer's calls could be highly emotional. "There are a number of films that can do $100 million or more," says Jeffrey Katzenberg, chairman of Disney Studios. "But you can't look for another Batman; that's a fool's mission. There will be triples and home...
...afford." Although the report does not say so explicitly, the Canadian health-care system, based on principles of accessibility, universality and public funding, is a model. The reason Canada was not mentioned, according to one official: its system is considered by some to be "socialized medicine," a buzz word that could torpedo the reform effort. Besides, says Ball, the Canadian model could not be wholly transplanted into the U.S. because, among other reasons, Canadians trust their government more than Americans...
...buzz of chatter permeates the overheated bus. The conversations change topics with amazing speed. A pair of women, one of them the dark-curly haired women, discuss a mysterious stain on someone's scalp, then start talking about a math problem they couldn't solve--something about substituting theta for x. A few minutes later, the dark-curly haired woman exclaims, inexplicably, "But he's a married man, with kids...
...What were you doing young lady?" one woman asks another. "I went to Nu Delta, but we left shortly after we got there..." The rest is lost under the buzz of the women...