Word: horning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Because running a college newspaper editorial page, in addition to making you the darling of compulsive letter writers everywhere and rendering you a bleary-eyed vet of intraextracurricular-activity politics, gives you sharpened vision and brilliant insight. Not to toot my own horn, but I now have what it takes to solve the great problems of our time...
...vehicles do different things for each of the sexes. While men revel in their swaggering, go-anywhere prowess, women like the high cabins that enable them to look out over traffic and feel secure. "Before, when I drove around town, I always had my hand on the horn because I was worried about my visibility to other drivers," says Jill Headstream, 41, a legal assistant in Austin, Texas, who traded in her Ford Probe for an Explorer in April. "I'm noticed now." Besides, says Headstream, Jeeps and their cousins have helped bolster the position of women in the road...
...expected that we would be among the top six,' Harvard Coach Mike Horn said. "We started out with some difficulty, however, and struggled to get back near...
...boom times for those perched on the upper rungs of the economic ladder. Mexico's claim to First World status begins at its dramatic glass stock-market building towering over the capital's main artery, Paseo de la Reforma. Young brokers in horn-rimmed glasses and imported ties traded the market into a 48% gain last year, even as the national economy slid into recession. In the three months after NAFTA passed in the U.S. Congress last year, more than $7 billion in new money flowed into Mexico, most of it from...
...been staffed or even has a budget. Taiwan officials have variously said the unit will have 300, 45 and six officers. So far, the Taiwanese have not made a single arrest, and response to a government call for people to come forward and register tiger parts and rhino horn has been embarrassingly small. Allan Thornton of the EIA says past efforts to enforce the law consisted of uniformed police asking pharmacies whether they had tiger bone -- something like having cops ask drug dealers whether they are carrying heroin...