Word: happened
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...living in an [economic] boom time and unprecedented low unemployment," he said. "What's going to happen when this economic period ends...
...what did happen to those pigeons? What troubled me was not simply that I didn't know but that I might never know. In early 1996, I reported in this very column that 4,000 pigeons had disappeared from Trafalgar Square, and I still don't know what happened to them. Could a phenomenon--some sort of Bermuda Triangle for small fowl--have swallowed up both the sooty waddlers in Trafalgar Square and the sleek homing pigeons who flew over the Mid-Atlantic states? The answer, I realized, might lie forever in a sort of phantom file of mine that...
Throughout his career, Juan Trippe had been driven by the great American instinct for seeing a market before it happened--and then making it happen. In a real sense, he fathered the international airline business. To do so, he took on the entire airline industry, and risked his company to see his vision through. You've just got to admire a guy like that...
Admit it: you've wondered why beautiful people rarely have any state-of-the-art skills. Are they born dumb, or does something happen to them during childhood? (Unless you're beautiful yourself, you've had those thoughts, so stop rolling your eyes and making that "phhht" sound...
...heard about an experiment where rats were given the choice between food and cocaine. They chose the cocaine until they starved. The same thing will happen to the engineers. I predict they'll all starve to death inside their cubicle wonderlands...