Word: impressiveness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Recent Veep contender John Edwards has been on the phone to thank supporters and say he will be back, but "he didn't impress anyone" with his work on the trail last year, a moneyman says, and may be a tough sell. And then there's Hillary Clinton, who remains publicly focused on getting re-elected to the Senate in 2006. Many insiders take it as a given that she will be in the '08 lineup and will be the name-recognition champ to beat. Yet, says a top Democratic fund raiser in New York, "there's a real unease...
...money in teaching FBI recruits.) A nerdy kid, the son of lower-middle-class parents in California's San Fernando Valley, Minkow says he got into scamming at the age of 16 and set up ZZZZ Best in his parents' garage so he could impress girls. "I learned that money brought respect, and it was like a narcotic," he says. "I couldn't live without it." At its peak, ZZZZ Best had 1,400 employees at 23 locations in three states. But the reality was something else: more than 85% of ZZZZ Best's cash flow came from undisclosed loans...
...bunch of filler." Otherwise they sat around and tried to clear their heads of everything they had ever done. "Musical hot potato was the idea," says Armstrong. "If you can't come up with something, do a dirty polka song. Just keep going and don't try to impress anyone but yourself." That led to weeks of actually writing dirty polka songs as well as a wildly profane, never-to-be-released Christmas album until eventually they sweated out 20 new tracks. Then the tracks disappeared. "Albums are kept on tiny discs these days," says Armstrong. "Someone walked off with...
...kind of pessimistic. It’s so easy to impress judges with heavily connoted words like ‘virus,’ ‘pirate,’ ‘terrorist,’ ‘hacker’ and it’s difficult on the other hand to explain the scientific method and the deep curiosity that makes us analyze how software works and find their flaws,” Tena wrote last March on his website...
Like trucker caps and Uggs, custom ring tones are so ubiquitous, they're practically pass. If you really want to impress, get a ring-back tone. When someone calls you, the ringing sound the caller hears is replaced by a tune from Alicia Keys, Santana or another artist. TMobile launched the first nationwide service Dec. 8 with about 400 $1.99 music clips. You must be a TMobile customer to buy the tunes, but anyone who calls you will hear them. --By Anita Hamilton