Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...could put her in a room with no door andshe'd still disappear. She hides behind trees anddigs foxholes," he said...
...reason all this is important is that every company in the world wants to avoid lawsuits. And thanks to the sexual-harassment rulings, it is easier than ever to file one. Wright's decision doesn't change that. Indeed, because most companies pay settlements to make cases disappear, it should be sobering that even Jones' weak case got as far as it did. If business groups had their way, judges would limit standing for sexual-harassment cases to ones claiming a strict quid pro quo. Wright's ruling did not do that. It merely said that Jones, who had little...
...bench by former president Bush. She ruled that Jones' case lacked the tangible evidence of sexual harassment and emotional distress needed to justify a trial against the President. As a result of this ruling, Jones' brief encounter with fame seems to have come to an end. She will now disappear from the political scene just as quickly as Monica S. Lewinsky burst onto...
...something the pilots say they never do and never heard of others doing. Officials also point out that another EA-6B squadron in Italy last year apparently videotaped some of its own flat hatting. A Marine commander who in the wake of the tragedy told his men to "disappear'' any such tapes was relieved of duty. Although there was a camcorder found in the cockpit of the plane that clipped the cables, the report says the tape was blank, at least by the time the plane landed...
Officials say accuracy, not parsimony, is the goal. "Consumption patterns change," notes BLS commissioner Katharine Abraham. "New products enter the market. Old ones are modified or disappear. The market basket of today is totally different from that of a generation ago." There is a gold lining of sorts. The overstated inflation rate has kept interest rates unduly high because lenders account for inflation in setting rates. Allen Sinai of Primark Decision Economics believes that even with the changes, the CPI may be a full point too high. "Effectively, there is no inflation," he says. Now the government is making...