Word: herded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what this Crimson team is doing as a unit is not amazing enough to attract fans by the herd, the individual accomplishments should...
American Indians harvested vast quantities of buffalo by stampeding them off cliffs. Because these buffalo ran blindly ahead, they unwittingly followed the rest of the herd to their death. Your recent guide contained no reference to the Macintosh family of computers and contributed to the Windows herd mentality. Shouldn't you ensure that people have their heads up and eyes forward, so they will not run mindlessly off the cliff? GUY KAWASAKI, Apple Fellow Apple Computer Inc. Cupertino, California...
...answer may well be yes. Boosted by the campaigns, milk sales have increased for the first time in decades, up .9% over last year. That's not enough to strain the dairy herd, and milk's not going to be replacing Chardonnay at Hollywood parties. But for a product that's been in a 30-year funk, it's not a bad start to a comeback...
...founding members of THE FIRST WIVES CLUB: What made masses of women ages 25 and older defy long-established patterns by rushing to buy opening-weekend tickets like a crazed herd of young male action-movie fans stampeding to the 16th Die Hard sequel...
...Utah to the building of the first transcontinental railroad. As usual, Burns and Ives use personal stories to humanize large events. We learn, for example, about Charles Goodnight, the Texas rancher who returned from the Civil War, found that cattle prices had plummeted and decided to take his herd north to look for buyers--thus helping launch the era of the great cattle drives. The story of the California gold rush is framed by the diary and letters of William Swain, who left his wife and family in western New York State, endured a grueling overland journey to California...