Word: counterfuls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dollars, but because the video in question had been returned on time. In fact, I had gone out of my way to return it on time, leaving in the middle of a holiday party thrown by friends to take the tape back. I informed the woman at the counter that I had returned the tape on time. She insisted that I had not. I again informed her that she was incorrect...
Instead of simply forgiving the minor charge as any businessperson concerned with customer service would have done, the woman I spoke to decided to turn my private complaint into a public spectacle. Looking out over the customers waiting near the counter, she called out to them, "The video was clearly late. Would anyone care to come up here and tell me what my screen says?" She gestured towards the computer monitor before...
...spot, the Clinton Administration finds itself scrambling for an acceptable replacement. Chairman Alan Greenspan is expected to be reconfirmed in his job, but TIME's Adam Zagorin says President Clinton is fighting an uphill battle to fill the two open spots on the board with liberal economists who could counter Greenspan's fiscal conservatism. "It's unclear which Clinton nominees, if any, could pass muster with Al D'Amato and the Senate Banking Committee," says Zagorin. "Names in the air at the moment include Harvard economist Ben Stein and Princeton economist Peter Kenen." With Clinton's re-election chances looking...
...know questions were the kinds of things that get informed. "Hey, there's an emergency, inform the doctor." "Quick, there's an answer, inform the question." That just doesn't seem right. Who decided that every concept, idea and notion was going to be either "somewhat intuitive" or "rather counter-intuitive?" As far as I can tell, these are just code words for "makes sense" and "completely absurd, but true anyway." But I may be mistaken...
...setting of the sun. For reasons that are not entirely clear, elevated levels of melatonin in the blood lull the body into sleep, while reduced levels during the day help keep it awake. So far, melatonin's best customers have been frequent flyers who use over-the-counter potions to counteract the effects of jet lag--by artificially shortening their "day" according to the number of time zones they have crossed...