Word: buzzed
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...Dynamic scoring' sounds like something composers or quarterbacks do. But in fact it's the hottest buzz word from the realm of Republican legislators, who hope to use the economic technique to justify tax cuts. Already the term has ignited a controversy. Laura D'Andrea Tyson, the President's chief economist, calls the concept "dangerous." But Republican John Kasich of Ohio, who is expected to head the House Budget Committee in the new Congress, is just as strongly in favor of the idea...
Still unthinking, for those things which do not give us an instant buzz, our patronage turns to treachery. In these cases, if one child displeases us, we suggest massacring the entire family. If the present tenants of a house are distasteful, we knock the house down...
Welcome to the second installment of "The Moviegoer," a new bi-weekly column on The Crimson's editorial page. It seems that the column has caused a certain amount of buzz. People discuss it on the streets. Poets compose sonnets to it. Lovers swear by it. And apparently one small Latin American country is using it as the basis for a new constitution...
...Pentagon buzz about a Monday invasion gained more credence today when Secretary of State Warren Christopher warned the move could come in "a matter of days." President Clinton canceled a Sunday political fund raiser in California that would have kept him away from the capital till dawn Monday. Defense Secretary William Perry, meanwhile, said an invasion "would be over in a matter of hours, at most a day or two." TIME Defense correspondent Mark Thompson reports that according to Pentagon sources, the latest scheme has elite Navy SEALs doing the initial dirty work. U.S. war plans then call...
...Intrigue! Betrayal! That's what you get when, say, a home-shopping channel wants to merge with a television network, right? Yet the juicy story line that usually comes with takeovers among media moguls is showing up in all corners of American industry these days. In fact, while the buzz is with Ted (Turner) and Larry (Tisch), the guys who are throwing real money around in their bids to consolidate belong to such unglitzy businesses as railroads and banks. Now it can be said: the '90s were never meant to be the decade of small appetites...