Word: guess
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...raised more than its fair share of practical difficulties over the years. At home over vacation, I was reminded of the many times in high school when I cringed at the sound of the telephone, fearing the timeless question, "Is Corinne there?" knowing that I would have to guess which Corinne the caller was hoping to speak to. I would inevitably fail half the time, and in typical high school fashion, I was always mortified...
...Guess what. The country doesn't care," says Wayne Daniels, a research analyst at New York's Schroder Wertheim & Co. In the battle of the bagels, alas, authenticity may not matter, he says. "If they like it, that's all that counts." Inevitably, too many stores will collide in too many places, creating the now familiar shake-out. But until then, cream-cheese makers would be advised to crank up production. --Reported by Soozhana Choi/Washington, Wendy Cole/Chicago and Jenifer Mattos/New York
...that prostate-cancer rates are higher in northern climates, possibly because of less exposure to sunlight and a corresponding decrease in the production of vitamin D, he spends more time outside and at the beach. "Of course," he concedes, "we have to balance skin cancer with prostate cancer, I guess...
...manner to men's assumed ineptitude in things domestic, notably cooking. Had a male commentator reported with the same dismissive derision that a woman was incompetent at checking the oil in her car, he would be decried, vilified, crucified and possibly emulsified for making such a sexist remark. I guess women do not like men in the kitchen any more than men like women in the boardroom. FRANK J. BRADLEY Dallas...
...certain genre," says Stallone. "Now it's time to come back to something I feel a real kinship for." He adds, "There are only so many catastrophes you can do before they start to look the same." In case you can't guess, he wants to try acting. In Copland, he'll play a partly deaf cop who's caught in a moral dilemma. "It's a role that makes me nervous, and the fear makes me excited," says Stallone. No explosions in Copland, although guns will be fired. (You were expecting Swan Lake...