Word: fresh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Senate chamber last week was utterly transformed from the early days of the trial. Back then the Senators, like students on their first day of school, had lined up their favorite pens and pencils in the silver trays atop their desks, pressed down the stiff pages of their fresh notebooks and twisted open brand-new highlighters so that the squeaks from removing their tops echoed throughout the hushed gallery. And they took seriously the daily admonition from the sergeant at arms to remain quiet "on pain of imprisonment...
...aides sprint in and out of the room. Says Lipton: "Often in meetings Rubin will cut right through the hierarchy, reach down to one of the youngsters at the table and ask what that person thinks. It creates a whole lot of energy--and an awful lot of fresh thinking...
...fresh thinking has been crucial in the new economic order. One legacy of 1998 has been the destruction of some of academe's and Wall Street's most cherished models of the world. More data and faster markets, says Greenspan, mean more opportunities to make money. They also mean more chances to lose your shirt, something he calls "the increased productivity of mistakes." Computers make it possible to push a button and destroy a billion dollars of wealth. The chairman was warning about the problem long before Long-Term Capital Management vaporized $4 billion, but that debacle silenced any skeptics...
...Services. It seemed like a good idea at the time. I knew I wanted to go to graduate school in the next few years but certainly not right away. I have led a fairly academic existence over the past three years (I'm a philosophy concentrator), and surely the fresh air of the "real world" would do my burnt-out mind some good. As I had heard through the grapevine, consulting companies have a secret hankering for kinds with problem-solving ability but no real business knowledge. My parents made a point of showing me newspaper profiles about Wall Street...
...films like the oh-too-cheesy Nightmare on Elm Street or the genuinely nightmare-inducing Scream have left a bad taste in my mouth. When bad taste strikes, however, there's nothing like The Faculty's group of water-loving, body-snatching aliens to wash away that not-so-fresh feeling...