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Word: hmmm (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Employers don't like to use that awkward term fired. While many companies "restructure," National Semiconductor "reshaped" its work force. Digital was gripped by "involuntary methodologies." Bank of America "released resources." Wal-Mart executed "a normal payroll adjustment." Hmmm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forward Spin: May 11, 1992 | 5/11/1992 | See Source »

...change in the weather/puttin on a hat with a yellow feather/ya see I wanna make it all better. "I wonder, is the phrase "yellow feather" a reference to some little-know Shakespearian drama, or is it just the first phrase that Gutterboy found to fit the "-ether" rhyme scheme? Hmmm...

Author: By Marc D. Zelanko, | Title: Mere Imitation of the Stars | 4/9/1992 | See Source »

...convince you to buy this if you have the outrageous amount of money they want for it. (I cannot sanction your xeroxing the whole thing, which would come to about $4.00. That's illegal. And besides, the book is beautiful, and worth buying for the cover photograph alone...Hmmm...maybe a color xerox would do that...

Author: By J.d. Connor, | Title: Derrida's Cinders | 1/30/1992 | See Source »

...ever bored? Hmmm. He tells of staking out the main and only street of Cedar Point, a hamlet's least piglet of a town. The idea is to watch all visible action, dawn to dusk, from the back of his van. But nothing happens. He puts aside as too metaphysical the lame notion that he himself constitutes Cedar Point's action for the day. It rains. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Walking Old Tom's Grand Grid | 10/21/1991 | See Source »

...Hmmm. Maybe the Democrats should stick with what they...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Lame, Lame, Lame | 10/18/1991 | See Source »

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