Word: slips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...song's subtle wordplay starts to hint at a deeper complexity. Is she singing "all they symbolize" or "all these simple lies"? It's difficult to tell, and Hatfield keeps delivering the line differently to keep her audience on its toes. Eventually, she starts to slip in the occasional "I" to replace "you" almost guiltily. Hatfield is serving up her usual heaping serving of deeply intimate lyrics but with a creative twist that actually works...
Outdoor activity becomes a distant memory when the dark, icy days of December are here. Most Harvard people hole up inside like hibernating bears during the winter, venturing out once in a while to slip and slide their way to class or grab a pizza at Tommy...
...just another routine case," says Dr. Mahlon Johnson. In 1992, as the Vanderbilt University neuropathologist was removing the brain of a man who had died of AIDS, his hand suddenly slipped. The bloody scalpel sliced through his glove and deep into his left thumb. Because of that "freaky little slip of the scalpel," as Johnson ruefully characterizes it, he endured seven "nerve-racking" months. He took several HIV tests--all were negative. Then the result that he had been dreading came in: he was HIV positive...
...break for tobacco companies? Now a prime suspect has emerged: former Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour. Two Republican Party officials told Time last week that Barbour, now a millionaire tobacco lobbyist, had gone to House Speaker Newt Gingrich and majority leader Trent Lott and persuaded them to slip a giant gift to his clients into the must-pass balanced-budget agreement just minutes before it was inked. For weeks it looked as if the two g.o.p. leaders had pulled off a classic fix: looting the general Treasury in the interest of a specific client with a laser-like incursion...
...prelude to a major philanthropic flourish of his own. Turner has called it a "pretty pathetic thing" that many wealthy people give little to charity, and he has said Forbes magazine's ranking of wealthy Americans discourages giving, because those on the list don't want to slip down. He has even singled out fellow billionaires Bill Gates and Warren Buffett for criticism, but he denied last week that his gift was intended to send a message to any specific person. Gates has already "dramatically increased the amount he has given," Turner says. "I'm not on anyone's case...