Word: hums
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...prospect facing viewers right now is three more weeks of ho-hum party-line expulsion. This is the soft, flabby middle of the show, and something CBS may want to consider tinkering with for "Survivor 3." This year, it's a misstep for CBS' juggernaut to stiff its fans with a lame-as-possible clips show just as viewer eyelids are at their heaviest...
...nation of spiritual seekers in the past decade, as faith in communism waned following the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre. Wang Ze, a 52-year-old consultant for frozen-foods companies, became a Tibetan-style Buddhist four years ago after meditating to the Tibetan mantra for compassion, om mani peme hum (which Dadawa later turned into a pop song). He and his wife converted one of their four rooms into a shrine. At the time, they didn't know anyone else who practiced. Recently, he says, "we hosted an initiation ceremony for 17 Chinese." A senior lama in Beijing says self-organized...
...National Retail Federation has already lowered its forecast once, to a 5 percent gain over 1999 sales, and other analysts see 3 percent. Better than last year, sure, and still awaiting that post-Christmas pop. Not a disaster. But definitely ho-hum...
...crushing debt load, aren't the free spenders who fueled booming holiday seasons past. Psyched out, tapped out and even shopped out--How many cell phones and cashmere scarves do you really need?--they are making this holiday, as a Los Angeles boutique owner puts it, "ho ho hum." "Some CEOs haven't seen it this bad since 1990-91," says Peter Schaeffer, a partner at Ernst & Young...
...radio lover. I wake up to it, go to sleep to it. My AM radio - talk radio, on the subjects of sports and current affairs - is on for perhaps 12 hours a day. For some of those hours it's just off-white noise, a hum of verbs and volubility, to which I pay little attention while working or reading. But radio also provides entertainment and information, and I know the difference. So as a culture critic who can appreciate a spellbinding showman, whatever he's peddling, I introduced conservative chat guru Rush Limbaugh to TIME's readers back...