Word: longer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There used to be consensus on these issues," he said. "Political division stopped at the water's edge. Sadly, that's no longer true. Now, foreign policy is formed by focus groups to score domestic points at home," a reference to charges that President Clinton and Vice-President based their foreign policy on public opinion...
...dining halls were refurbished this summer, the first step in a series of dining hall renovations scheduled for the next few years. The new dining halls have drawn praise from students for their design and the quality of the food; for some employees, though, the redesigned halls have meant longer and harder hours and increased tension with HUDS management...
...Hollings, one of Domenici's predecessors as chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, decried all talk of surpluses as "a circus act if I've ever seen one." Said he: "Instead of the deficit and debt going down, they're going up." His point: while the government is no longer borrowing from Social Security, it is still borrowing heavily from trust funds for Medicare, pensions for military and civilian government employees, highway building and other things. Without those nonpublic borrowings, he contended, the government ran a deficit of $127.8 billion last fiscal year, and the debt, including amounts owed...
There are other pitfalls. In many cases, if the viator lives longer than expected, investors can end up having to pay premiums to maintain the policy. And unlike stocks or bonds, these are highly illiquid investments. That means that in the event of an emergency, there's no quick, easy way to get your money back...
Could it be that the mantra of last year and the year before--"Faster. Cheaper"--is this year's mantra too? You bet it is. In fact, lightning-quick machines for less than $1,000 have become so common that the issue is no longer productivity but entertainment and the push for real simplicity--the long coming of computers that are as easy to use as household appliances. The best computers at the turn of the millennium combine solid fundamentals (a fast processor, a roomy hard disk and a great screen) with a choice selection of new technologies, like rewritable...