Word: guess
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kids movie!" my teenage brother suddenly realized as we walked into a theater full of moms with their three-year-olds. Oops, I guess I forgot to mention that part, but I thought he would have figured it out from the title...
...Woman Who Knew Too Much. When a panelist at the education forum in Oneonta talked about an early-elementary remediation program called Reading Recovery, Hillary couldn't contain herself. "I know something about this program because I've followed it and I've supported it for, I guess, more than 10 or 12 years," she began, "ever since I learned about it being pioneered in New Zealand." It was classic Hillary. Time and again she would ask some nuanced question that her panelists were unable to answer--and then she would answer it herself...
...spared the final phase of the trial, in which Eisner would have had to counter Katzenberg's estimate of future revenue by poor-mouthing the company's prospects. And Katzenberg gets a nice bundle--if not the $580 million he wanted. No dollar figure was disclosed, but the educated guess was around $250 million, including the $117 million Katzenberg has already received. The sum is to be paid within a year, giving the plaintiff a fat payday--and an enormous tax bill...
...High School in Algonquin, Ill., is proud of his new tips, though he admits to "feeling a little weird when they made me wear the little red hat inside the beauty salon." In nearby South Barrington, Pete Castillo, 31, a warehouse manager, just got his tips last month. "I guess I was looking for something different to start the summer," he says...
...similar process of educated-guess-and-error led people to load up on the nutritional supplement beta carotene in the early 1990s. Scientists noted that those who eat lots of fruits and vegetables tend to get less cancer and speculated that carotenoids--the same antioxidant substances that seem to protect against heart disease--were responsible. In particular, they focused on beta carotene, the most abundant and common carotenoid, as the most likely to prevent cancer...