Word: creeping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...irony is that taming the real estate cycle appears to be transferring volatility from the value of the properties to the value of the REITs' shares. Take last summer. Fears of overbuilding began to creep into the news, and REITs were trashed like a wormy apple. The quick, severe reaction had the desired effect. Hotel starts fell 21% in October, 48% in November and 42% in December. The slowdown jolted supply and demand into balance, keeping projected vacancies down, rents and earnings...
Years ago, I put on the record what I had learned about blue jeans at Southwest High School, in Kansas City, Mo.: "Anybody who wears jeans that are not Levi or Lee is a nerd, a creep, a wonk, and walks like a duck." What binds Weyrich and me together, I realized, is that we believe in an absolute standard of behavior, what used to be called the eternal verities; we deplore what he would probably call relativist morals and I would call a lot of people being willing to go around dressed like dorks...
...highly charitable verdict by launching "an all-out offensive to knock off his foes." It's not enough for this self-absorbed wretch to defile the nation's highest office. Now he's dragging his whole party into the muck. And amazingly, Democrats are buying into the Big Creep's definition of victory: three-quarters of the country believe he is untrustworthy and lacking ethical standards, and they're popping corks. Party leaders are united in defense of this man--their guiding principles of moral and legal relativity have been elevated to an art form (one standard for liberal Presidents...
...about was the whole Clinton deal, and my life isn't just about that, O.K.?" Columnist Maureen Dowd of the New York Times is hired as a replacement. The final result, a 500-page indictment of Ken Starr in particular and men in general, is titled Dear Handsome, Dear Creep...
MARCH 2000 Premiere of the movie Dear Handsome, Dear Creep on the Lifetime channel. Cast: Kate Winslet as Monica, John Larroquette as Clinton, Ellen DeGeneres as Hillary Clinton, Oprah Winfrey as Betty Currie, Gerard Depardieu as Linda Tripp, Angela Lansbury as Lucianne Goldberg, Bob Balaban as Ken Starr and Jack Palance as Walt Whitman...