Word: shrugged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...objective viewer might respond to Lewinsky's claim with a shrug of the shoulders. A more skeptical viewer might have doubted it as much as she doubted the so-called "rumors" themselves. But if you're not just an objective or skeptical viewer, but a genuinely imaginative one, then perhaps another thought crossed your mind: Where did those "rumors" come from? Who started them? Why were they believed? And, if that many people really do believe rumors, couldn't you have started...
...free over the Internet. Zotaley estimates he has 1,300 songs on his computer, everything from classics by Van Morrison to the latest by the Beastie Boys. And he has never paid for a single song. "I don't know how legal that is," he says with a shrug, but free songs sure are "a good investment." His rap, techno and swing titles go directly from a laptop to the house's deejay booth. These digital music files have replaced compact discs entirely when it's time for the fraternity house to get jiggy...
...disappointed we got beat rather handily," said Yzerman. "It's been going on for quite a while now. At the beginning of the year, we could shrug it off - a loss here, a loss there - but now they're starting to pile up and it's starting to become a concern...
...Washington and the rest of the country. Then suppose you were asked to guess who was on which side. Put aside your own views on Presidents, oral sex, interns, perjury and so on. Would you have predicted that Washington would be outraged and the rest of the country would shrug it off? If you say yes, I don't believe you. In 1998, thanks to Bill and Monica, we all learned something surprising about ourselves. That's what makes the public reaction, not the events themselves, the political story of the year...
...question is: Just how persuasive was Gates? To hear the Microsoft boss tell it, he was doing his old pal Andy a favor: "Intel was wasting its money by writing low-quality software that created incompatibilities," Gates says with a shrug on the video. Grove?s account sounds a little more ominous: "We basically caved," he told Fortune magazine later that year. "Life?s too short" to introduce software that Microsoft doesn?t support, he added. Throw in a 1995 memo written by Intel VP Steven McGeady, the government?s latest witness, in which "Gates made vague threats of support...