Word: chuted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really surprising. At Yosemite Valley in California, the body of Derek Hersey, a renowned Alpinist whose unforgiving specialty was rock-wall climbing done solo and without the protection of belays, was found below Sentinel Peak. And on Alaska's Denali (Mount McKinley), descending unroped in darkness down an icy chute called Orient Express, Charles Cearley, 40, a mountaineer from Seattle, fell 3,000 ft. and died...
...front page may find it tougher going. Former Nixon appointee Ron Walker, managing director of the executive-search firm Korn/Ferry in Washington, says his office is getting "tons of calls. People want to be prepared," he says. "No one wants to be the last one out of the chute." Think tanks are hanging out NO VACANCY signs. "We just laid off five people," says Christopher DeMuth, president of the American Enterprise Institute. Although Housing and Urban Development Secretary Jack Kemp is said to be guaranteed a job with the conservative Heritage Foundation, it claims there is no more room...
SORTING MAIL. The U.S. Postal Service uses voice-recognition systems in 30 big postal centers to sort bundles that cannot be processed by its automatic equipment. A human reads the ZIP codes off the labels, and the system directs the packages to the proper chute. The Postal Service figures it is cheaper to buy a computer to do the job than to train people to memorize which ZIP codes correspond to which locale...
WIRTH: The massive scramble to get the list of who bounced checks, that corridor full of reporters. It was ya-hoo! It was like we were feeding all these people into a chute, and at the end of the chute was the list, and everybody was dashing to get it. Reporters were lusting after it. They know more about how the House bank works than how campaign-finance reform works...
...seventh year, her tenure case comes up for review. The ladder to tenure is fully in view. Instead, the professor is sent down the Harvard chute, and out the door...