Word: forget
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...essence, "If you want another wheat-research facility in this district, vote for the other guy. We don't need it, and our grandchildren will have to pay for it, and I won't do it." Voters approved and conservatives cheered, but once in office the rebels seemed to forget the gospel they ran on--forgot their promise to serve only three terms, or to fight pork-barrel spending, or to forswear the politics of redistribution, in which you take money away from the folks who didn't vote for you just to hand it over to the ones...
Kids know that my daughter and I have different last names, but they often forget mine. They know that as an unmarried woman, I'm not a Mrs. Yet Miss doesn't seem right for a mom, and I dislike Ms. For years I did what many parents do--I asked my daughter's friends to call me by my first name. We parents claim it's simpler that way. The truth is that we think the informality will keep us young and cool and prevent us from becoming our parents. Instead, we become the reluctant peers of our kids...
Disaster strikes on the way home, just before we hit the city. By then we're so comfortable with Map 'n' Go that when a road sign clearly says Manhattan and the computer says something else, we forget to rely on our common sense. All of a sudden we're lost in the slums of the Bronx at 11 p.m. For the next 10 minutes the little green arrow mockingly charts our circular course...
...Forget hotdogs and burgers. Over the Fourth of July weekend, Billy Mitchell, 33, ate every dot, energizer and blue ghost on his way to scoring the world's first Pac-Man perfect game. The six-hour feat was witnessed by Twin Galaxies, which publishes a video-games record book. After completing all 256 levels, Mitchell, a Florida hot-sauce manufacturer who also holds the world's Donkey Kong record, promptly announced his retirement from Pac-Man competition. Junior Pac-Man, however, is another story...
...Forget Y2K - the big e-commerce countdown is the 160-odd shopping days until the shipping deadline for Christmas deliveries. Amazon is getting ready. Today the company added two new "stores" for toys and electronics...