Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...leadership void was apparent in the first game, when Harvard looked flat before the game even started. Instead of rushing out to pile on to Bibro after the coin toss like it did last year, the team just waited on the sidelines...
...average plunge from a July 17 high of 9337 to an Aug. 31 low of 7539, at least partly because it became obvious that earlier expectations of a continued smart rise in profits were wrong. Wyss expects after-tax profits to drop about 2% this year and stay essentially flat in 1999, perhaps rising a nearly invisible...
Hyde's stubbornness and common sense spring partly from his hometown. His suburban Chicago district is just a few miles from the Howard Street apartment where he grew up. One flight up from a saloon, the flat was all the family could afford during the Depression, as his father barely held on to his job collecting nickels from pay phones. His parents were Democrats by default. "If you lived in Chicago in the '30s, you were a Democrat," says longtime friend Philip Corboy. The stronger influence in Hyde's life was Catholicism. Coaxed by his mother, he attended St. George...
Marie Larkin carries off the role with an admirable intensity, if not a consistent accent. There are too many marbles rolling around in her mouth to achieve the flat twang of a Tennessean, and instead she sounds a bit too close to a Mississippi sophisticate than the product of Appalachian inbreeding. Precisely because she isn't "dumbed-down" enough for the part, she achieves an entirely different element from the character: cold calculation. Her words are placed with precision, whether it is to tear down "the nigger" or the doctor...
Although students at the College have a pay a flat fee for the massage yoga services, Ballinger says, her office is working to make the services more accessible. As of this week, a 10-minute chair massage costs $10, an hour-long table massage...