Word: gossip
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...VIOLENCE IN the Middle East, the downing of two American aircraft by Cuba and continuing turmoil over the Republican nomination for President, you chose to run a cover on that never-ending soap opera known as Charles and Diana. This story should long ago have been relegated to the gossip columns to be read by people with nothing better to do. LARRY WANGER London, Ontario...
...Dorrell, Britain's health secretary, insisted Tuesday that British beef remains "a safe product." He told BBC radio: "I agree with The Sun newspaper this morning which says it isn't the cows that are mad, it's the people that are going mad. Livelihoods are being threatened by gossip." On Monday, the British Parliament decided that no new action need be taken to curb the spread of the disease. The decision contradicted media predictions that the government would order the slaughter of the entire British herd to halt the spread of a bovine brain sickness that could potentially kill...
Many students arrived at Harvard with the assumption that they were going to leave behind the world of gossip and scrutiny and were soon disappointed. Most agree that gossip can hinder or catalyze a relationship especially in spaces where the pick-up scene is highly visible...
Moreover, palm reading--and listening to others' fortunes--is a form of gossip justified by mystic tradition and courses at MIT. Paul's predictions were based as much on what he wanted to know about you as what your palm actually indicated ("I see some inconsistencies in your Venus Mound...did you have some tumultuous romance problems a few months ago? Tell me about them...
...retaliation Lady Windemere finally determines to accept the advances of the society roue, Lord Darlington (Gregory Grene), a man who seems to court wives out of vocation. Gossip, misunderstanding and rather haphazard designations of good and bad all threaten to ruin Lady Windemere's otherwise healthy marriage...