Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ammunition to blow the proposal to bits. Among the attorneys general, the chief naysayer through most of last week was Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey III, who argued that his colleagues were pushing too quickly for a settlement. (And they in turn accused him of grandstanding.) "They're trying to rush this through before we realize we've had our pockets picked," Humphrey said at midweek. He claimed tobacco could pay more than twice the agreed-upon amount, or some $800 billion over the next quarter-century, without putting a dent in overseas profits, stock dividends or executive perks...
...current Book Building will be converted into a "collegiate Coop," stocking dorm and school supplies, prints, insignia products, textbooks and basic men's and women's wear and is scheduled to open before the back-to-school rush...
Earlier this week, I was part of the 6 p.m. rush to get home. An unkempt man was trying to make conversation with a fashionable woman decked out in a Chanel-style jacket and tailored pants. "You look about fourteen," he said to the obviously forty-something woman. "Do you know that if you were a dog, you would be two?" The woman let out a nervous peal of laughter, uncertain whether the conversion from human to dog years was a blatant attempt to impress her or the tangential musings of a madman. At the sound of her voice, three...
Drudge (and Dexter) lives in a six-room apartment in downtown Hollywood, where he does his reporting out of a homemade geekatorium: one TV showing CNN, another MSNBC, a third tuned to a direct-broadcast satellite. Rush Limbaugh, a fan and spiritual brother, blares out of one of the radios. Drudge's police scanner is crackling pure L.A. bad will. And of course, there are computers--three of them. They are his two-way pipeline to the Net. In the past 24 hours, 1,796 E-mail messages have poured into his In box--more than usual because...
...There's definitely a problem with wanting to rush and get the thing done with," Larson says...