Word: extraness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SCHENECTADY, N.Y.--The Harvard men's hockey team had a little extra baggage to carry with it on its second (and shortest) of three annual trips to upstate New York: the burden to prove that its last three losses in four games was only a minor setback...
...year 1999 was a big one for polls here at TIME.com. We shouldn't have been surprised. Pre-millennial fever seemed to add an extra edge to all the passions that motivate people to express themselves - political tension, national pride, economic disparity, religious fervor - and our polls were chum in the water for those with an overwhelming need to make themselves heard. Make themselves heard they did, turning out in record numbers for our polls, periodically flooding our tiny newsroom with ravenous vote-generating robots, angry e-mails and even threats of eternal damnation. The polls that touched a nerve...
...about the new economy," says Baumohl. "Increased productivity means that even though new jobs are being added, the prices of consumer goods aren't rising. And a growing number of employees are being at least partly rewarded in ways that don't show up in hourly wage inflation figures - extra benefits, bonuses and stock options." It may be a gilded age, but gold isn't all that glitters...
...Teachers] are constantly castrated for not doing their jobs when they're spending hours upon hours doing extra work," she said. "They've gotten no credit and they've gotten constant bashing...
...ready for the coming of a kinder, gentler Ronald Reagan. The evidence: a bold tax plan that puts his money where his "compassionate conservatism" sound bite is, tempering supply-side Reaganomics with aid to the working poor. It includes a $1.3 trillion tax cut over 10 years, with extra relief to poor families. The plan received a conservative blessing Wednesday in the form of a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece, which said "the Bush plan at least moves in the Reagan direction and realizes that taxpayers who built the current boom need incentives to keep it going." Bush...