Word: smacks
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...Girl Scouts of Mount Laurel, New Jersey, are working on a new badge: "hard bargaining." Smack in the middle of the cookie-selling season, 27 area troops demanded a bigger commission from the South Jersey Pines council, which oversees Mount Laurel and six other area troops. When HQ rejected their request, the troops retaliated with a slowdown, vowing to peddle only the 12-box minimum. "This is the first I've heard of anything like this," says Marianne Ilaw, spokeswoman for the Girl Scouts of America, which has been selling cookies annually for 69 years...
...whole culture of technology-loving--and in some cases, perhaps, technology-worshipping--futurists, such words smack of 1st millennium thinking in the face of 3rd millennium faith. They tend to see in the Internet something larger than themselves, an entity so much greater than the sum of its parts as to inspire awe and wonder. "People see the Net as a new metaphor for God," says Sherry Turkel, a professor of the sociology of science at M.I.T. The Internet, she says, exists as a world of its own, distinct from earthly reality, crafted by humans but now growing...
...society, at some point in my life, I'll be confronted with these problems," said Hazel-Ann F. Mayers, a first-year law student. "Everyone will be forced to face them, but the only difference is whether you challenge them voluntarily or if you wait for them to smack you in the face...
There it is again: the Marijuana Exception...the Reefer Loophole. All the idiots who drank Canadian Club and Heineken for breakfast, or wrecked themselves on smack or meth--they know they done wrong. But "merely" smoking pot? Well...
Today's unspeakably low dividends are a smack-between-the-eyes testament to dramatic and fundamental changes in the stock market in the 1990s. That's not to say the market has changed for the worse. Stocks have been a phenomenal investment this decade. But don't kid yourself. Risks have escalated. Investors failing to recognize that could get blindsided by a market drop. Or maybe they'll just become disenchanted, either by a return to far lower rates of return or by a dearth of the conservative widows' and orphans' stocks that used to make investing safe and simple...