Word: shrugged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trends are seldom entirely reassuring. Smoking is down among adults, though lung-cancer deaths continue to rise rapidly among women because they began smoking in large numbers less than 50 years ago. But teenagers, with their genius for perversity, are smoking more than in recent years. Should adult society shrug and blame Joe Camel, or hit the kids over the head with market forces in the form of a $2-a-pack...
...These people are small businesses. This is their life," he said this week. "You're not dealing with rich people who if their restaurant goes under will shrug their shoulders and walk off into the sunset...
...friend responds with a frown, realizing that the affliction has claimed yet another victim. "A little bit of sophomore slump, I guess." We all shrug and walk away...
When Roosevelt drove him into a corner at their first debate two weeks ago, Weld tossed off his challenger's victory with a shrug of his shoulders...
...many ordinary Americans, and even some corporate middle managers, might greet that news with a shrug and a "So what?" -- or a skeptical obscenity. The price of beating overseas competition has been bitterly high: wave after wave of downsizing layoffs, wage increases limited or forgone, replacement of full-time workers by part-time or temporary hired hands. Even those who have hung on to regular jobs are often too exhausted by long hours of overtime and weekend work to enjoy the extra money they are earning...