Word: thrill
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people in the [College Democrats] are people who care about issues and aren't just in it for the thrill of the campaign," Olney said. "They care about the issues that are important to the Democratic party....I see no reason why they wouldn't remain involved...
...sports season, like the stock market, is very cyclical. Early November corresponds to a bear market. With the thrill of the World Series fading as the days pass by, the sports nut (along with a proliferation of 24 hour sports cable networks) must search for something to fill the void. Unfortunately, the pickins' are slim...
Since I make my living online--at Pathfinder, an enterprise that will be working mouse in glove with CNN thanks to the merger of Time Warner with Turner Broadcasting--I thrill to any evidence that people are turning to their information appliance, the PC, when they need news fast. Like spaceships sent out to seek havens for a doomed civilization, mainstream media are trying to colonize cyberspace, but the early returns are mixed and revenue streams narrow. A few daring publishers have begun--apostasy!--billing visitors to their sites. The Wall Street Journal Interactive, for instance, announced last week that...
...Mike have tried a few "get-rich-quick schemes," she says, selling a line of home products--water filters, shampoos, vitamins--to friends and relatives; signing up new customers for a long-distance telephone company; even investing $5,000 in a scheme to provide leasable race cars to weekend thrill seekers, which has so far produced only two takers. All these businesses have yielded more loss than profit...
...whip out pictures of their husbands within seconds of meeting a reporter, preached the Rules to friends for years before deciding to write them down. Their thesis is a simple one, familiar to evolutionary scientists (and most women with mothers of a certain age): men are hunters who thrill to the chase. In recent years, the authors claim, women have made the game too easy. "Feminism," explains Schneider, "has not changed...