Word: swears
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Gore's got a chance, all right - with anybody who's achieved some financial status in this status quo. And that's a lot of people. Except that I'd swear on my mother's Cisco shares that Raymod Mora wasn't headed to the polls at all in November...
...buzz and heat in this sector are reminiscent of last spring in the e-commerce space or last winter in the B2B space, when hundreds of start-ups were launched and dozens managed to go public before NASDAQ tanked. But the venture capitalists swear that this time it's different. For one thing, these are real companies making high(est) technology gear for blue-chip customers. More important, some companies have been showing impressive growth and real profits. JDS Uniphase last week announced quarterly net income of $114 million; sales increased 173%, to $524 million. Corning earned $525 million last...
Charles Fournier, a former army sergeant and nursing-home administrator who was accustomed to bossing people around, used to swear he would kill himself before he'd let anyone put him in a nursing home. So he was almost as baffled as his wife was when, after two strokes, he chose last year to live in one. Even this hardened military man couldn't resist a place with 40 birds, 25 rabbits, 12 cats and four dogs living there, noisy kids at an on-site day-care facility and committee meetings to attend to help run the place...
...Bush Administration's State Department and for the past eight years as the Clinton Administration's special Middle East coordinator. It contains secrets that he and maybe one or two other people know, things like confidential Israeli and Palestinian negotiating positions, areas where they might concede, areas where they swear they won't. Occasionally he drafts handwritten memos in it to the Secretary of State or the President. In that binder are ideas that show the way to peace...
...fact, there are moments (as when Gore speaks... slowly... and... heavily.... to... grown... men... and... women... so... that... you'd... swear... he... was... trying... to... explain... Wittgenstein... to... three... year... olds) when you have the disconcerting thought that the vice president may come from Mars. With Sheppard's insight, we may imagine simply that Gore comes from Ottawa. It is a less dislocating thought. The Coneheads sought to offer the same reassurance when they explained that they came "from France...