Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...door when the horse is just grazing in the yard. Even though the commission is likely to recommend a cooling-off period, analysts say the industry is already lukewarm at best. The reason: Gambling expansion has slowed in recent years. The public is losing interest, lottery ticket sales are flat for the first time in three decades, and expansion was a nonstarter in several state ballot boxes last November. Even the gambling mecca itself, Las Vegas, is trying to remake itself as a "family" destination. One area where analysts are still bullish: Indian casinos. The success of the Mohegan...
...have certainly put more money into the system: Education spending has leapfrogged from $162 billion in 1982 to $300 billion in 1998. Yet despite this talk about "investing more in education," the money has simply gone down the drain. Scores from the National Assessment of Education Progress have remained flat throughout the decade. The Third International Math and Science Study conducted last month reported that American high school seniors placed 19th out of 21 nations in math and 16th out of 21 in science. Our advanced students did even worse, scoring dead last in physics. This evidence suggests that, compared...
...make an origami Chinese junk. It was a remarkable feat of artificial embryology, passing through a distinctive series of intermediate stages: catamaran with two hulls, cupboard with doors, picture in a frame--and finally the junk itself, fully seaworthy or at least bathworthy, complete with deep hold and two flat decks, each surmounted by a large square-rigged sail...
Sleepwalking through yet another movie, Arquette apparently thinks we'll write off as oh-so-nourish her flat, "understated" delivery; she also misguidedly subscribes to the Uma Thurman "the more tired you look, the sexier you must be" school of seduction. She doesn't play her character's kooky quirks--addictions to self-help tapes and The Sound of Music--as nearly as creepy or unnerving as they should be, reducing them to novelty, pop-recognition bits...
...came out flat, and Princeton came out cocky and confident, as usual," Pankau said. "We might have been tentative, scared or intimidated because we had lost to them in the past...