Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think UPS doesn?t know that. At a time when the Great Dot-Com Shakeout has seemingly begun, casting doubt on money-losing e-tailers like Amazon.com, the Street still knows that somebody?s going to get rich selling stuff online. Which makes a safe bet like UPS ?- the guys who deliver it to you ?- doubly attractive. "They?re obviously cashing in on the Internet craze," Kadlec says. "They?ve waited 92 years, and they have no desperate need for the cash. This is just too good an opportunity to pass up." Nobody deserves a little taste of Internet riches...
...party whip as hard as he can ? and he?s not afraid to beg, either, telling members that the GOP?s slender majority (not to mention his own job) is riding on this vote. And he?s breaking the first rule of congressional politics: He doesn?t even know how it?s going to turn out. "This is becoming yet another opportunity for Republicans to embarrass themselves," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "Tax cuts are their last signature issue. If they can?t even bring their own party along, how can they lead Congress...
...used to seeing girls throwing, batting, kicking and catapulting themselves around the place. Because girls didn't see other girls doing it, we didn't know what we were missing. Even pros had it hard. Bobby Riggs advised the queen of women's tennis, Billie Jean King, that when playing doubles she should "stand in the alley, and don't hit anything that doesn't hit you first...
...could possibly object to moderation. And yet, as we all know, moderation pettifogs and sniffs out loopholes, and has a tendency to live life one day at a time, in the wrong direction: "Oh, I'll have eggs Benedict, just this once." The truth is that moderation works only if you are an unblinking maniac about it. While admirable when rigidly observed, moderation is ultimately a thin creed, a sort of Unitarianism of diet, a deism of good intentions...
...many of us, moderation even goes against human nature. Extreme case: a rancher friend of mine in West Texas, to whom I offered a beer at lunch, declined it, remarking philosophically, "You know, Lay-yance, I never have been able to understand one beer. If you drink one, you want to drink a case or two. And we don't have time for that today...