Word: herded
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...That’s really who Aaron is. He’s competitive but his way is to look out for the whole herd,” says Debbi Barth...
...With a herd of nine Democrats vying to square off against President Bush next November, Gephardt described her father as an electable candidate, attributing his appeal in part to his Missouri roots...
...He’s on the right track!’ Uttered perhaps by an ass, but still an ass of high degree, an ass whose approval is gold and diamonds to a smaller ass, and confers glory and honor and happiness and membership in the herd. For these gauds many a man will dump his life-long principles into the street, and his conscience along with them. We have seen it happen. In some millions of instances...
...gaud took material form, then that gaud is a new Red Sox baseball cap. Yes, standing well with one’s friends is pleasant; yes, there is a satisfying sense of community wherever a television is tuned to a Red Sox game. But is membership in that herd really pleasant enough to make us forsake life-long (and in many instances, generations-long) allegiances to other (and in many instances, better) baseball teams? College should be about acquiring new allegiances, and also about examining old ones. It should never be about cheering for the Sox to please a herd...
...dollar, and not long ago U.S. policymakers had nothing but praise for the way China managed its foreign exchange. In the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98, China did not devalue the yuan?and hence make its exports cheaper?when other Asian nations did. Had Beijing followed the herd and taken export markets from its Asian competitors, the economic recovery in Asia would have been delayed. But as the value of the greenback has slipped on international markets, Chinese exports have become even cheaper. Hence the clamor from some of those who directly compete with China for the country...