Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Instead, I should have called CompUSA, which supports virtually all computers and software. At 1-900-CALL-COMP, you get $2.49-a-minute help (first minute free) from real pros. I immediately reached someone there who quickly diagnosed my problem as a corrupted registry and told me how to fix it. Kip Crosby, co-author of the indispensable Windows 98 Bible, later said the registry, a humongous file that helps initialize programs, is often where problems arise. "When it's corrupt, it's almost impossible to repair," he said, noting that hardly anyone in the support world will muck around...
...copycat filmmaking, exactly. The Howard film--written, with their usual comic clarity, by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel--is a version of the 1994 Quebec farce Louis 19, le roi des ondes. But Hollywood, temporarily bereft of original ideas, has become fascinated by its power to create and corrupt. It looks at O.J., Monica, the rubes and rhubarbs on Jerry Springer and asks, with a mixture of self-accusation and self-awe, What have we done...
...more relaxed lifestyle. In Europe, as in the Quad, a sense of community flourishes at a safe distance from standard consumer hubbub. Out here on the margins, our residential society supports a plethora of family-owned businesses and small restaurants, rather than the massive chain stores that dominate and corrupt the capitalist cosmopolitan environment...
...interim Finance Minister of Congo, Mawampanga Mwana Nanga. He is also the Agriculture Minister. "Every day is a nightmare. The roads go no farther than 60 miles outside the capital. Less than 10% of the country has electricity. People have forgotten how to work together, and too many are corrupt. This country is not a state. It's a mess. Why are we Africans shooting at each other? There is so much work to be done...
...communication difficulties. I fully embrace the prolonged ellipsis, the parenthetical "you-know-what-I-mean" and the awkward pause. Rather than punctuate my fragmented sentences, I let them trail off into my preferred word of closure: "whatever." To the well-trained listener the frequent "like"s that corrupt my language keep an expert tempo--to the rest, I babble...