Word: dross
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...every nation (197 in '96), the Atlanta Journal-Constitution summed up the first day of competition with this banner headline: NO GOLD FOR US. The message was that there was something ignoble about the two silvers and the bronze that U.S. athletes won that day, and by extension the dross won by athletes from other nations. Aleksandra Ivosev of Yugoslavia certainly appreciated the bronze medal she won for the women's 10-m air rifle. Ivosev has a training problem, which would be laughably ironic if it weren't sadly so: "Because of war," she said, "we couldn't find...
...Jackie phenomenon and eventually came up with an interesting question: Why wait around for authors to turn themselves into celebrities when it's possible to sign up people who are already famous or semi-so? Whether such folk could actually write novels mattered hardly at all. Turning unmitigated dross into dross that will sell is how editors and, sotto voce, ghostwriters earn their keep...
...bars and fish pizzaiola which Harvard Dining Services purveys. We are easily stupefied by the most clever publication around. Like the couple in Don Delillo's White Noise, who make love only in the "style" of a certain century, Fifteen Minutes encourages us to revel in the pop cultural dross of Americana. What accounts for this phenomenon? How did it all happen...
...name was as good as gold through most of the '80s, as the savings bank based in Buffalo rapidly amassed a menu of failing savings banks around the state, with the blessings of business-first federal regulators. But as the go-go years went-went, Goldome turned to dross. The bank inched back toward profitability during 1989, only to face stricter capital requirements from a savvier set of feds in the wake of the S&L crisis. The new rules of the game finally proved Goldome's undoing last week...
American Express has just turned his Gold Card into dross, their posh London hotel is pressing them to settle a steadily mounting bill, and the future of his cocoa futures is dim indeed; the beans are rotting on the docks somewhere in South America, the result of a highly inconvenient strike...