Word: chipping
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According to the proposal's advocates, allowing freshman eligibility will increase the Ivy League's appeal among blue-chip prospects. By removing the burden of attracting an entire team, recruiters will be able to focus on bringing in a few key players, they...
...slow droop of his jowls and in his Sisyphean struggles against the thickening of middle life. "I look at Clinton in his dumpy running shorts," sniffs marketing consultant Judith Langer. "He symbolizes the baby-boom generation: they think health, but they don't always resist that chocolate-chip cookie." In the waning days of the campaign, Clinton's reading glasses (for baby boomers the scariest word in the English language is suddenly bifocals) began to make a frequent appearance on the nightly news. As for the Vice President-elect, Al Gore, just 19 months Clinton's junior, the passage...
...when the blood began flowing, the Bush administration threw out the only bargaining chip the U.S. had by announcing that military force would not be used to fight the Serbs. By then, no amount of economic or diplomatic pressure could work since there was nothing to back...
...SHOCKING ENOUGH WHEN THE BLUEST OF America's blue-chip companies, IBM, announced last November that 20,000 of its 350,000 employees would either retire or resign by the end of this year. But when the estimate of departing workers doubled to 40,000 last week, the effect was numbing, both to the public and to the markets, where IBM stock is trading near its 10-year low. By the time the last pink slip and gold watch are handed out, the world's largest computer company will be but three-quarters the size...
COVER: Photograph for TIME by Chip Simons...