Word: magically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...companies that send these offers out probably say that they're just trying to help students. They're doing us all a big favor by offering us the opportunity of alternative methods of payment. They're making our lives simpler with magic plastic, right...
Certainly it would be paternalistic to suggest that college students--especially Harvard students--aren't capable of deciding for themselves whether or not they need an instant $10,000 credit line. Most students probably do understand that magic plastic really isn't all that magical...
Moreover, the Republicans appear to believe in differential treatment for the parties. When President Bush wants to send 500,000 troops to Iraq overnight, he just waves his magic wand. But if President Clinton wants to send one twentieth of that number to Haiti, the Republicans want to vote first! You'd think they forgot about passing the War Powers Act for their old buddy Richard Nixon and his little policing actions...
...seem to be able to fake their way past it with impunity. Take, for example, Anfernee Hardaway's newly renegotiated contract. Most people would! The second-year point guard, who averaged a modest 16 points last year as a rookie, just signed a nine-year contract with the Orlando Magic that will pay him an estimated $70 million. This violates no league edict but sets the stage for trouble ahead. Little wonder that the Magic owners have seen fit to raise ticket prices. The increase raises courtside seats from $60 to $95. Little wonder that Hardaway was booed lustily...
...that the fans are getting the shaft, that is not precisely the case. No one is holding a gun to the head of the spectator and forcing anyone to part with $12 to sit so far away from courtside in Orlando that O'Neal actually looks small. The Orlando Magic won't have too many empty seats this year in the expensive sections or in the very expensive sections. Baseball, if it ever gets under way in 1995, may suffer from depressed attendance. That will become clear only when moral indignation is confronted by the desire to hunker along...