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...come hell or high water, just so it lasts until the baby boomers are dead." Gore will "take on big drug companies to guarantee prescription drugs for seniors. Hold schools accountable for results." (Yes! Those bastards!) "Tax cuts for working families and the middle class." Note the missing verb; at this point the syntax has broken down, as the biography has wholly devolved into a laundry list of promises...
...without a doubt, the Internet technology that permits the average computer user to swap files online--all types of files--is here to stay. The Wall Street Journal turned Napster into a verb this summer when it ran the headline, the "Napsterization of Movies," referring to the web site Scour, a site whose users swap compressed movie files. Music files, movies video games and even needlepoint patterns are being shared online...
...scheduled to reward and grease soft-money donors to the Democratic Party as Clinton and Gore ran for re-election. "I may have attended one," Gore told Conrad. "It was certainly not my understanding that they were fund-raising events," he said. Echoing Clinton's infamous parsing of the verb "is," Gore says, "Well, let me define the term 'raising.'" And as for the notion that there might have been a price tag attached to attending a coffee, Gore was outraged. "Absolutely not," he said. "And it is my belief that that would have been considered wildly inappropriate...
...Board: 1. The Administrative Board of Harvard College. 2. It decides your fate if you screw up badly enough for anyone to take notice. 3. A verb: He was ad-boarded for getting really drunk and his pushing his proctor out of a fifth-floor window...
...activity is so pervasive that it has inspired a verb. "Scrapbooking is the quilting bee of this century," says Deana McIlroy, a mother of two who lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, and gets together with friends and a consultant (yes, there are certified experts in the field) to scrapbook. The Hobby Industry Association estimates that more than $300 million was spent on scrapbooks last year, up from about $200 million...