Word: hinting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...realize there was a problem." Indeed, it was a bigger problem than anybody, probably even its mischievous creator, could have imagined as computers everywhere tumbled like so many dominoes. Once again that scourge of the Internet age--a computer virus--had struck. Silently, lethally, without even a hint of a warning fever, it raced around the world at light speed, clogging communications and bringing both commerce and politics to a halt...
...hint that European executives are unduly padding their stock portfolios can still inspire public outrage. In France, polls last year showed that 66% of French citizens wanted to own stock options--until the so-called Jaffre affair exploded. That scandal was sparked by oil giant TotalFina's successful takeover of rival Elf-Aquitaine, and the $35 million stock-option package paid to vanquished Elf CEO Philippe Jaffre to bless the union and walk away. Furious French leftists--who derailed earlier government plans to lower the tax rate on stock-option earnings from 40% to 26%--responded with an unsuccessful campaign...
...Bradley of giving the issue short shrift). The veep recently signed on to President Clinton's plan to devote nearly $200 billion to extending Medicare coverage to prescription drugs, and seemed to turn a blind eye to Wall Street by saying that the drug companies drastically overcharge consumers - a hint at the sort of market intervention the center-hugging Gore has heretofore avoided...
...Harvard, there has been little reaction--not even a hint of happiness from graduate students or a pinch of perturbation from administrators...
Though Oprah, based in Chicago, is rarely seen in the O offices, she intervened often in the editing process, peppering King with ideas, demanding changes when she found some helpful hint too condescendingly obvious, and insisting that the table of contents come at the very beginning of the magazine instead of after pages and pages of advertising, as in most glossy monthlies. Oprah tried on every fashion item featured in the magazine's "O List," according to King. "She won't recommend something she hasn't tried herself," says King. "There's one list in which you have...