Word: shun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bicycle or in-line skates or tennis racquet or putter for the loved one in your life? Say goodbye to the $2.9 billion in Christmas sales racked up by sporting goods and bike shops. Shun the glittering bauble? Jewelry stores sold $4.5 billion worth of glitter last December--more than 23% of their total. No more liquor, candy and the like? With retail stores making anywhere from 25% to 40% of annual profits during the holidays, a wholesale abandonment of gift buying would turn our retail shops into empty shells...
...first, we shun such fawning. We tell our family and friends that we go to school in Boston and avoid dropping the H-bomb that might make lesser folk uncomfortable. In polite conversation, we grow adept at unconsciously substituting "major" for "concentration," "resident advisor" for "proctor" and "TA" for "TF." We pretend we go to a school like all other schools, only with a slightly higher average GPA and a slightly worse football team...
Despite reports of Harvard's liberal bias, Bass's press secretary said Bass did not shun Harvard for that reason...
...question, of course, is who will buy these books? And who will shun them because of their connection to a show some may see as apostasy? Doug Donaldson, who is selling the videotape of the Moyers shows for educational and home-video markets, says pre-broadcast sales have been "doing gangbusters," with one major exception: traditional religious distributors. Some sense of why may be gleaned from Roberta Hestenes, an academician and Presbyterian pastor and one of Moyers' guests. Although quick to say she "thoroughly enjoyed" her experience on the show, she found the conversations were missing something: "I wondered about...
...gravity to your thighs. Then, if you decamped with the 20-year-old assistant, the woman left behind got to keep the house, the friends, the country club and the moral high ground. She could also count on the solidarity of first wives--without a club--who would shun the new woman for moving in to skim off the gravy years...