Word: heard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...haven't really seen [the fliers]. I think I heard someone talking about them though," she said...
...That and at parties or at bars, people I don't know go, "Hey, there's something on your ear." And I'm like, "I've never heard that. That's so good...
That hardly mattered to the outcome, since minds were made up before the debate began, but it reinforced the sense that this is a headlong descent into quicksand. Newt Gingrich had to raise voice and gavel repeatedly to be heard over chattering staffers and milling members. Judiciary Committee chairman Henry Hyde invoked "our awesome and terrible responsibility," as he likened the offenses President Clinton allegedly committed by concealing his dalliance with Lewinsky to the abuses of government perpetrated by Richard Nixon. "This isn't about sexual misconduct any more than Watergate was about a third-rate burglary," proclaimed Hyde...
...last week the phrase was never far from the President's lips. It was like a bad case of hiccups. "... when the feelings of the American People become apparent...the American People made their voices heard...the support of the American People...stand up and fight for the interest of the American People..." That's just one 10-minute speech...
...assets like high-flying stocks and emerging-market securities in search of higher returns--leaving bonds and bank certificates of deposit behind. Now the inherent risk behind those high returns is becoming obvious, and the trend is reversing. This is the so-called flight to safety that you've heard about, and it's occurring at all levels--from fund investors who find they aren't so comfortable having everything they're worth tied up in stocks, to pros whose sophisticated strategies for dealing with risk have come unglued. The trend is very good for safe havens like T-bonds...