Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...utter silence in Namibia, the Sahara and the Australian Outback. One human rodent, who promises to show Geddes the world's largest beer-can collection, leads him to a completely empty room. Curses, he says, my hostile wife and son have stolen every can and taken them to the dump. But no; later the wife and son force the loony to admit that he never collected any cans whatsoever, in fear that any such exhibit would fall short of perfection...
Bill Murray: Total consciousness...no, wait, that's from Caddyshack. Actually, just an invite to the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, and lots of cheerful, clueless old ladies to dump into bunkers as his speed schtick goes...
...Washington, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan offered up to traders what they had been counting on: he raised short-term interest rates on Tuesday by the largest amount since 1981. His goal was to restrain the economy and forestall inflation. If traders are convinced that inflation looms, they might dump bonds and thereby drive up the cost of the long-term loans that have financed the business recovery...
...townspeople welcomed the national press with coffee and doughnuts and open homes, hoping that all the attention might help find the kids quickly. Once the story went national, police expected the thief to dump the car -- and the children -- in a hospital parking lot, or at a convenience store, or a shopping mall. But still there was no sign. And everywhere parents suffered, as the temperature fell below freezing two nights of the first five...
...wonder, maybe in the selection process these companies should just dump all those who bother asking inane questions and interview those who get something tangible out of the evening--surely that's the kind of thinking a consulting firm is looking...