Word: patly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with nearly identical collections of telescam trash. "We considered taking her checkbook away," says daughter Penelope Clute, a prosecuting attorney in New York State. "Fortunately, we didn't do that. It wasn't her. It could happen to anyone. [The scammers] are criminals, and they have the psychology down pat." Even after her secret was out, Downs could not give up hope of recouping some losses. A few weeks later, she called her children to report, with great relief, that at long last she really had won something: two luxury cars. "Of course that was another layer of the scam...
...society controversy becomes consensus only to become controversy again when the new conventional wisdom jells. Take the national debate about divorce. In 1992 Vice President Dan Quayle made his infamous Murphy Brown speech railing against single motherhood and was ridiculed by almost every social observer to the left of Pat Robertson. Less than a year later, social historian Barbara Dafoe Whitehead published an essay in the Atlantic Monthly titled "Dan Quayle Was Right." Citing studies that tracked the development of children raised by single parents, she identified broken families as Public Enemy No. 1, responsible for a generation...
...banished to their own little colonies, out of sight, out of mind. It is time for the victims to get out of the trenches and let politicians, doctors, scientists and insurance companies know they have a right to be treated--with antibiotics if necessary and certainly with dignity. PAT SMITH, President Lyme Disease Association of New Jersey Jackson...
...doing everything from teaching geography to operators (hint: Des Moines is in Iowa) to routing New York City calls to a specific set of operators who might have heard of the stock exchange or Grand Central Terminal. "We are cleaning it up," says AT&T spokeswoman Pat Mallon. She cites Silicon Valley and Long Island as recent successes, but problems still exist in some vital areas like Washington, because the city covers three area codes and its information systems don't "talk" to one another. There's still some work to be done. Earlier this year, a request for Squaw...
...said Meaghan F. Corwin, a 17-year-old summer school student. "If they're trying to pass it off as a Van Gogh, they should get a slap on the wrist but, if it looks real, they did a good job and deserve a pat on the back...