Word: defaulting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just like the downsized IRS, taxpayers were coming in with downsized problems. One woman was there over a disputed $100 payment. She said the agency only credited her for $75, throwing her account into default. An hour later, she returned happy, although saddled with more paperwork, and confident that her problem would be taken care of. "I'm very happy with how I was treated, and I think that everything is going to be fine." Oh, the humanity...
Immediately following the doubles final, the singles title was to be decided. And although the battle lines were drawn for that final matchup, the familial duel would have to wait. Due to a hematoba in his heel, Tom was forced to default and thus James was handed the singles trophy in a walkover...
...Street columnist, Daniel Kadlec. "No one expected Hong Kong to get hit this hard, and it did. If this sends the Southeast Asian markets any further into recession, it will have real implications here." U.S. multinationals, in other words, will get out of Asia faster than you can say "default," with global-thinking investors right behind them. "That could be the thing that triggers the 500- or 600 point correction everybody's been waiting...
...strategy of choice at the moment is the default strategy of politics: expediency. Both the Republicans and the Democrats have decided to play up morality by introducing relatively narrow pieces of legislation, such as bills pertaining to school choice, vouchers and gun safety. There is good sense in this strategy, since more contentious bills--like a sweeping anti-abortion bill on the part of the Republicans--have failed for their ambition. Of course, the people may not want good sense or politics-as-usual. To the lawmakers' chagrin, these narrower issues have not managed to excite the public...
...around a book called Buddhism Without Beliefs, in which Stephen Batchelor, a former monk in both Zen and Tibetan traditions, suggests that Buddhism jettison reincarnation and karma, thereby making possible what he calls an "existential, therapeutic and liberating agnosticism." In fact, many American practitioners have already Batchelorized themselves by default. A good example is Ann Buck, 67, a retired businesswoman and teacher of Theravadan meditation. Although she does not reject karma, it plays little role in the groups she gathers in her house in Malibu, Calif.; it will certainly not figure in a phone service she is helping plan that...