Word: surer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...McDonald clown character was familiar to 96% of American children, far more than knew the name of the President of the United States." Being a baby-boom company, McDonald's has found maturity a bit difficult. Its food today is as consistent as ever. But Americans are different, much surer of their tastes. They no longer need the security McDonald's provides. So the same assets that had made the restaurants so great started to turn against the company, especially after Kroc died in 1984. People looked at uniformity as boring, insipid and controlling, the Golden Arches as a symbol...
...happens to live in an e-mail friendly environment and on who happens to register his or her e-mail address with Harvard every time he or she switches to a new one and who you happen to know has registered. An e-mail account system would be simpler, surer, and more befitting of Harvard's quest for greatness...
...same time, says Holland, she wanted to emphasize the stronger, surer Catherine that emerges at the end of the film. "She wakes up with a kind of independent feeling," says the director. Driven to make her own living away from both men, "she becomes a full person, becomes herself...
...Manhattan party where, once again, a pretty girl treats him as just a friend. For the adults the big social event is a Key Party. The men drop their car keys into a bowl, the women blindly pick them out, and new sexual partnerships are formed--a surer route to public embarrassment than to private ecstasy. The omens are clear: the founderings of all these nice people will lead to trouble. A child must be sacrificed; men must sob at their loss. The Ice Storm, says Ang Lee, director of this daring epic in miniature, is "a disaster movie. Except...
...manuscript's discovery will make prosecution a much surer bet. Initial tests have indicated it was typed on the typewriter next to it; and the FBI had previously determined by examining the manifesto sent to the papers, the Unabomber's missives to various newspapers and a gloating note to one victim that all three emerged from the same machine. In fact, lying next to the treatise in the cabin was a version of one of the bomber's letters to the New York Times. As America's trial watchers are aware, there is no such thing as a sure thing...