Word: disappeared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...following thought experiment: Choose a day, wake up early and disappear for the duration. Take the day off--but don't tell anyone. If you have too much work, as most of us do, go sit in Widener, deep in the stacks, or in the giant reading room on the second floor, where the echo of a cough resounds louder than a wrecking ball. Stay there and study all day. Grab lunch or dinner at Loker, then go back to Widener again. Better yet, if you can afford a day away from your work, take a real break...
...find they do not have quite as much leeway as bottoms-up management might suggest. The company immediately begins a process that Ray Loewen calls "normalization," or bringing newly acquired homes up to financial expectations. All the comfy perks of a family business--extra cars and dry cleaning--suddenly disappear. And prices rise. Loewen also institutes its "Third Unit Target Merchandising" system in the casket showroom, which capitalizes on the propensity of survivors to avoid the cheapest two caskets and choose the next one up in price. "It's no different from any other business operating a showroom," says Lawrence...
...have these series managed to last through a couple of presidential administrations while shows like Fox's Lush Life--just as appallingly written as Married...with Children--disappear after just two episodes? Closer inspection reveals that most long-running shows offer entertainments utterly unlike the majority of dramas and comedies on television. On no other cop show but Walker, for instance, does the fight between good and evil get so primal as to involve face-offs between man and grizzly bear in the Utah mountains. Moreover, while most sitcoms in the '90s strive for some semblance of urbanity, Married...with...
...things shall pass and the Tiger barrage will eventually die down. However, Tiger's barrage upon the golf world will not disappear any time soon...
Fred Couples and Tom Watson were far more successful. So, has the luster worn off? Is he not the big deal we expected? Are we watching another Todd Marinovich--the boy bred by his father at birth to be the greatest quarterback of all time only to disappear from view after a mediocre career...