Word: sheerly
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Unlike the Prohibitionists of an earlier age, the new moderates are not on a single-minded moral crusade; they are simply getting older and busier. People tend to drink differently as they age, and the 76 million baby boomers, whose sheer numbers can turn a whim into a trend, are maturing. There is not much time for drinking in two-income households and little sympathy for hangovers. "I'm pushing 35, and I'm certainly drinking less," says Angie Levin, an Atlanta office worker. "In college, binges were pretty common, but as people get older, they have children and other...
...capitalist tools go, Malcolm Forbes, 65, cuts a wide swath. The millionaire chairman and editor in chief of Forbes magazine last week embarked on an 18-day swing through Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei for the sheer swell of it. Traveling with an entourage of 20 in his private Boeing 727 (dubbed Capitalist Tool, after the magazine's slogan), Forbes made his first stop at the Grand Palace in Bangkok. He brought along an $80,000, 90- ft.-tall, elephant-shaped balloon to entertain the royal family, but high winds curtailed the flight. Forbes is not bothered by little deflations...
...even uncommon in 20th century literature--take Nabokov's career, for example, which includes a novel in the guise of an annotated poem. Pale Fire, and a literary biography that's also a comic masterpiece. Nikolai Gogol. What makes Julian Barnes's achievement so remarkable, however, is the sheer lack of artifice and pyrotechnics involved...
...payout will be $200 million, roughly the same as last year. Some anonymous IRS employees told journalists that the tax backlog had got so bad that agency workers had deliberately shredded thousands of returns. Egger heatedly rejected those stories. Said he: "I'm here to tell you it's sheer nonsense...
...Imagine Buckingham Palace under water, and St. Peter's too. Well, that is just a joke, a metaphor, but it is what one travel agent thinks of when she looks ahead to the travel season this spring and summer. "Europe is going to sink into the ocean under the sheer weight of American tourists," says Jane Levin of Boston's Garber Travel Agency. "In 24 years in the travel business, I have never seen it so busy so early. It's incredible...