Word: thought
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...immediate problem was $100 million in inventory, which Mattel thought had been sold, that mysteriously reappeared on the books at Learning Co. Oops. That turned an expected $50 million profit at the newly acquired division into a loss of $50 million to $100 million...
...Maybe it's just a test of your love. She thought, "What's the heaviest thing I can get someone to bring back...
Although Palahniuk agreed with Faludi's analysis of the problem, he said he thought weekly bareknuckle bouts would be cathartic. "Men need violence. We are very much still animals," he said from his home in Portland, Ore., the least manly city in North America. "We can channel violent feelings into working hard and buying things, but they keep popping up. We need to acknowledge that they are not bad feelings; they are human feelings," he said. I asked him why, in that case, the fight clubs in his novel caused so many problems. "Because it was a book...
...students who had the nerve to yell it at her in class. Recounting this to her colleagues at lunch is her way of venting. It took strength, when the boy talked to her afterward, not to throw "whatever" back in his face. Her fellow teachers hoot at the mere thought: Oh, how good it would feel--just once--to tell off the little suckers...
...been defeated, we can embrace them and call her cute little Hester, cute little Muhammad Ali. They don't pose a threat. You know what Joe Frazier said about Muhammad Ali? When he saw him lighting the Olympic torch, he said they should have pushed him in. People thought Frazier was being callous about Ali's suffering. But Joe Frazier respects Muhammad Ali as a warrior. You can't condescend to him; he's not a puppy or something. Show some respect...