Word: sleigh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pleased to note that the benefits of our restructuring and job cuts two years ago have kicked in, and we are now saving billions of dollars annually. Rudolph, you'll continue to guide my sleigh every year, not just foggy nights. We must remain vigilant on costs. But management--that's me--believes the days of wholesale downsizing are fast approaching an end for leading-edge companies like North Pole, Inc. At least for the next few years, our plan is to pursue profits the old-fashioned way: ship out more toys, not jobs. I've watched chronic cost cutting...
...Smashing Pumpkins symbolized teenage angst and depression. On "Christmastime," however, Corgan sings gently and tenderly about the joy found on the faces of children at Christmas. Written from a father's viewpoint, Corgan carols of how "Christmastime has come/bringing toys for everyone/Christmas time has come...for you." Sleigh bells, whistles and peaceful piano sounds define the wholly unoriginal music which matches the lackluster lyrics. Nevertheless, the Pumpkins song reeks of Christmas joy and is a delightful listen...
Young also describes a ghost that frequents Holden Chapel every year "around the first snowstorm." Young recalls that "her name is Pickham--a woman who was riding with her fiance in a sleigh through the Square when their horse slipped on the ice and their sleigh flipped over. Her fiance broke his neck and died in her arms. He was buried in the basement of Christ Church, but when she returned to visit the grave, the body had been dug up and stolen. In those days, if often happened that internists would dig up bodies to dissect. The young lady...
Enter eight reindeer, to the sound of sleigh bells. Supply-side theory, developed by Jude Wanniski and Arthur Laffer and passionately advanced by New York Representative Jack Kemp, held that sharp cuts in income taxes would actually increase government revenues by unleashing the pent-up power of the economy. Jobs and higher wages would explode like popcorn, from which higher tax revenues would follow, despite the lower rates. In no time, the supply-side theory went from being a disputed intellectual curiosity to being the unofficial doctrine of the party. It made possible a new, infinitely optimistic Republicanism, one that...
...seen a fridge thrown several hundred yards, while glasses on a nearby table weren't touched." Last month Betty Lou Pearce, a 64-year-old clerk from Pilot, North Carolina, hid from a tornado in her bathtub and moments later found herself sliding into the woods in a ceramic sleigh. She returned from her Wizard of Oz-like journey scratched and bruised but otherwise miraculously unharmed...