Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...merit genuine interest and concern or that there were no valid reasons for the emotional expressions that followed them. But these responses seemed so much more dramatic than usual, and so determinedly public. What was not openly displayed was deemed not to exist. When Diana died, the traditionally stiff-upper-lipped royal family was exhorted by placards to SHOW US YOU CARE...
assignment eight was much shorter than assignments that students in upper-level computer science courses must complete...
...coming to the biggest political contest of all in an era that loves talk-show confessionals--a time when even the British royals are expected to loosen up or lose their jobs. Gore, in fact, has a lot of Prince Charles in him, a vestige of the style of upper Cumberland, Tenn., "that emphasizes formalism in public presentation," he told TIME last week. "I think I absorbed that, but I'm slowly learning how to transcend it." Until that happens, Gore's famous stiffness and failure to grasp the trick of compelling self-presentation are no small problem...
...that quote strikes you as uncomfortably close to what "let them eat cake" might sound like if translated into Upper East Side real estate talk, try to forget it. Dwell on something comforting--the fact, for instance, that the maintenance in an A+ building can often be expressed as something in the teen thousands. Whatever you do, don't panic...
...Finger or not, Clinton may have had the upper hand all along. TIME's Justice-watcher Elaine Shannon says that Republicans' threats sound hollow. "There was some talk that the committee would retaliate by holding up some judicial appointments," she says ? but as the GOP remembers all too well, shut-down politics is a dangerous game. "Who does that hurt more?" asks Shannon. "The side that provoked it, or the side that causes the gridlock? It's generally the latter...