Word: papered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many students could not get onto the program before it was turned off, and 200 first-years had to section afterwards on paper...
...reunion dinner which was lots of fun, evoking vow upon vow to "do this more often." Will we? It's not like we haven't made that promise before. But here we are, at the start of a new year, a couple of weeks from the first big paper, and hope springs eternal. Maybe it's best to just let these things go, but at dinner the other night, it really did almost feel just like old times...
...real story. Buildings were peeled open like dollhouses, with walls stripped away and still furnished rooms absurdly exposed to the air. Tall buildings leaned drunkenly against smaller neighbors. Taipei's Sungshan hotel-apartment complex accordioned from 12 floors to just four, but a temple nearby remained standing, its paper lanterns hanging from the perimeter of the roof...
...Federal Government's role as the sole underwriter of flood insurance since 1969. Almost any agent can offer the coverage on behalf of the government, but the agent gets only a handling fee that barely covers the paperwork. Insurers make money by collecting premiums and investing--not by shuffling paper for Uncle Sam. Without a financial motive, even the most thorough agents may view flood coverage as a bother, especially in low-risk areas...
...sofas are the last thing you'd expect people to buy online, stocks might be the first. "Financial service is a paper transaction," says Gomez Advisors' Dan Burke. "There's no need to worry about shipping, returns or any of the stuff that makes regular e-commerce so challenging." Yet it will be December before Merrill Lynch, the company that brought "Wall Street to Main Street," offers its first $29.95 online trade. That will be more than three years after both a tiny upstart called ETrade and the discount brokerage Charles Schwab began allowing investors to trade stock...