Word: throwing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...throw in a prediction box. I stick another big picture at the bottom...
...surprisingly, the national sports media is not at all bothered by this uncertainty, and throw about the phrase like it had all the certainty of a statistic like batting average...
...complained of stuffy noses. In fact, rhinovirus, above, with its more than 100 identified strains, has probably been around even longer than humans. With age comes wisdom, which in the case of this virus means the ability to resist every concoction--from chicken soup to zinc lozenges--people throw at it. So far, modern medicine has met its match. Still the best treatment: aspirin, rest and lots of fluids...
...farmer or shopkeeper or housewife. And every word that candidate utters has been polled and market-tested until nothing fresh remains. We brought conventions into living rooms across America, and every trace of honest disagreement, every hint of personal eccentricity has long since been banished from the halls. We throw floodlights into the press rooms after debates, and the comments are so meaningless that if one of the candidates pummeled a nun to the ground and stole her purse, we would hear him described as a firm advocate of the separation of church and state...
...known as the Federal Reserve Bank must be going off. Some economists believe that inflation is inevitable when the unemployment rate drops below 6%, because wages rise as the labor market tightens. Average hourly earnings in August rose by 0.5%, bringing wage increases over the past year to 3.6%. Throw in the torrid 4.8% gdp growth in the second quarter of 1996, and you can understand why many Fed watchers are expecting an interest-rate increase at the Fed's next meeting on Sept...