Word: calling
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...President"; rather, she "reacted to him more as a man and got angry at him like a man and just a regular person." When Mr. Jordan asked why Ms. Lewinsky got angry at the President, she replied that she became upset "when he doesn't call me enough or see me enough." Ms. Lewinsky testified that Mr. Jordan advised her to take her frustrations out on him rather than the President. According to Ms. Lewinsky, Mr. Jordan summed up the situation: "You're in love, that's what your problem...
While the politicians fiddled, the economy was decomposing. The ruble, bouncing wildly from rate to rate and inflicting on traders what they call "ruble whiplash," has lost half its value in the past month. Prices are heading skyward. Domestic products are--at long last--in greater demand, but their prices are up so high that they have officially crossed the threshold of hyperinflation. In August monthly inflation jumped to 15%, the biggest increase in more than four years...
...stopped calling short people dwarfs. We've stopped calling disabled people handicapped. We've stopped calling lots of people lots of things we always called them. But the XXXLs of the world have a message for us. It's still O.K. to call them fat, as long as you don't make fun of them. "We're fat! We're here! Get over it!" was the cry at the recent Million Pound March here, a celebration notable for the fact that nobody actually marched anywhere...
...trenches we call them the generals. They are the big-dollar stocks, the companies that make up the Standard & Poors 500. Most of the Generals go up year after year, and they buy back lots of their shares. We stock pickers hate them--and with good reason. A machine, buying shares of the S&P 500, has beaten the vast majority of stock pickers--including 77% of those who ran mutual funds over the past five years. It makes us all look...
...Call it the macho critique of Clinton: the feeling among certain red-blooded types that any world leader who'd schedule his quickies through his secretary, cuddle his cutie in front of TV cameras and allegedly try to buy her loyalty with assorted knickknacks and a hatpin instead of, say, a new Camaro convertible, isn't, to judge by his street smarts, much worth following. Kinky trysts in the White House are one thing. Placing a phone call as your mistress pleasures you is something else entirely...