Word: hosed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...drab two-story building whose Formica desks and battleship-gray walls belie the company's immense profitability. Before long, a crowd of would-be suppliers begins forming at the front door: vendors carrying trunks and cases of products, hoping to interest Wal-Mart buyers in their toothpaste, panty hose, toasters and hundreds of other products. Wal-Mart buyers are notoriously tough bargainers, so sales representatives prepare their pitches carefully. Wal-Mart has plenty of room to grow -- shoppers in 15 states, mostly in the Northeast, have yet to see one store. The chain got started in 1962 much...
Fashion is painful. Women suffer pinching, scratching, binding, twisting in the name of chic. Push-up bras give you the lush bosom of the '90s, but the underwire cuts into your rib cage. Panty hose are hot and, frankly, sweaty. High heels give your hips an alluring tilt, but after a 10-minute walk, your feet scream. Short skirts are young and kicky. But how young do you want to look when you can't sit comfortably...
...have learned from experience to say no to fashion. We're stuck with bras until a kinder form of support comes along. I liked long skirts because I could wear knee-high stockings underneath. And I simply refuse to wear hose in summer. So what if the oracles say I'm not properly dressed? I won't buy a catsuit this season, and I bet few other women will. While I refuse to trade in my pumps for Reeboks, I don't buy shoes with heels higher than an inch or two, and I still manage to have fashionable feet...
...from a general awareness of the dangers of smoking. But this awareness often boils over into unjustified fury at friends lighting up the old cancer sticks. And just why is there no similar fury against the guy sucking down 16 ounces of beer through a funnel and a rubber hose...
Dehydration is the most critical problem in the camps. Jordanian officials say they are supplying water as quickly as they can, but it is simply not fast enough. Dozens of men holding buckets gather around a dry water hose attached to a water tank, their faces expressing a fear just short of panic. "Please, we've been standing here for nine hours waiting for water," says Romis Ali, 45, a Bangladeshi who worked at the Meridien Hotel in Kuwait City. Ali, in his second week at the camp, hasn't had anything to drink in 20 hours...