Word: showing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...used to spot a temp a mile away. He would show up at the office for a day, asking too many questions, trying to remember the firm's name when answering the phone, unable to find the coffeepot or get the copier to work...
Hollywood may be a grownup version of high school, but you're not actually supposed to bring along your principal. Unfortunately, SETH MACFARLANE, 25, creator of the animated Fox series The Family Guy, had little choice in the matter. Shortly before his show's post-Super Bowl debut last January, MacFarlane was contacted by his former headmaster, the Rev. Richardson Schell. The principal asked MacFarlane to change the last name he had bestowed on his buffoonish cartoon clan, as it was also the surname of Schell's longtime assistant. MacFarlane refused. Schell got epistolary. With homemade letterhead boasting the name...
NAME: Alec Baldwin AGE: 41 OCCUPATION: Actor/Clinton backer/would-be politician BEST PUNCH: During an appearance on the Rosie O'Donnell Show, denounced the New York Post as "the worst newspaper that was ever created in the history of journalism" and suggested that more legitimate news could be found in a Bazooka comic...
...particularly fond of our habit of polling ourselves to find out how dumb we are. Almost weekly you can find the papers reporting some study that shows Americans know squat about history or geography or our own Constitution. Then we all clap our hands to our foreheads and bemoan the national dumbness once more. The most recent studies show that 72.6% of Americans believe Alexis de Tocqueville never should have divorced Blake Carrington and 94.7% think Chad is a men's cologne...
Skeptics of the report?s racial implications maintain that it?s just a fact of life that the better-off ? whites in general being wealthier than minorities ? adopt new technology sooner. When the socioeconomic gap narrows, the Internet gap will narrow with it, they say. But the study clearly show that it?s not just about money: Among those in the $15,000-$35,000 income group, more than a third of white households are online, while among minorities that portion drops to one fifth. Results like that were catnip for Bill Clinton on Thursday as he wound...