Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Team members from the rest of the kitchen converge around Oberdorfer to help finish the cookies. Before they started cooking, the group split into two- or three-person teams that would, to their surprise, switch places at the appetizer, entree and dessert stations. The job shuffle was designed to address their boss's desire for them to share tasks better. It wasn't always easy. The first shift had a communications crisis: "The recipe says broil, but the oven's on bake!" (The incoming veggie team hadn't been debriefed on a menu change...
...each other before a hooting audience of their peers. Change fixes up each half of a troubled duo on a blind date, then has them taunt each other about their nights of wine and sweet talk ("He liked that I wasn't wearing grandma panties") and decide whether to split or stick it out. It's enough to make one pine for the innocent days of Studs...
...court ruling against President Clinton with a monetary sanction against him: $90,686 for having provided false testimony under oath about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky in the Jones lawsuit. The money ? minus $1,202, which will go to the court to reimburse its own costs ? will be split between Jones and her attorneys for the expenses they incurred as a result of the President?s failure to testify truthfully...
...stepping on the toes of not only the White House and the majority of economists, but some moderate members of their own party ? just like the House leadership did last week. Rhode Island Republican John Chafee is leading a handful of fellow moderates and Democrats who want to split the tax-cut difference between the White House ($250 billion and not a penny more) and the Senate GOP leadership ($792 billion and not a penny less). It?s a futile effort ? for now. "The $792 billion cut is just like last week?s House proposal in that it?s little...
...things in most horror movies are outlandish and laughable. Scream makes a virtue of this, winking at every silly cliche of the genre. But Blair Witch invests ordinary things--piles of rocks, bundles of twigs--with horrifying meaning. Since similar objects appear in many shots, there's often a split-second when we're reminded of the unseen menace. And we can't laugh off our fears, so the tension doesn't dissipate...