Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Billy Watson, the man they call Opie because he looks a little like the kid from Mayberry, was drenched with sweat one day in the Mueller lunchroom, where he made himself a sandwich of white bread and vacuum-packed ham he'd brought from home. On the job since he got out of high school 15 years ago, Watson connects the aboveground portion of hydrants to the belowground portion, pushing iron logs around with the help of an overhead crane...
...process might move faster if it was clear who was running Japan. But after a century of iron-fisted control over the economy, Japan's vaunted bureaucrats have been unseated by allegations of corruption and mismanagement. Politicians have moved into the power vacuum, but their strengths are in vote getting, not policymaking. A legislative committee is now in charge of shaping plans to reform Japan's banking system, for instance. But Japanese politicians do not have big budgets for experienced staff. Even if they could plead for help from the bureaucrats, that might not be wise. Consider the diplomat...
...which ones are damaged goods. And that's just how you ought to shop when there's a clearance sale in the stock market, like the one that knocked the Dow down 207 points last Monday. But there you have to inspect the goods especially closely. Stocks aren't vacuum cleaners; if they break when you get home, you can't take them back to your broker for a refund...
...Hope's case of death-by-media is an apt example of the over-the-top business of celebrity death today. In the absence of wars, economic problems or the O.J. Simpson trial, the media vacuum is conveniently and easily filled by morbid, yet highly-rated, coverage of a famous one's passing...
...Government alone cannot fill the vacuum of traditional community," Dole said...