Word: voila
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Here's a better way to think about it: Imagine if the Cleavers, the Bradys and the Bunkers were tossed raw into an oversized postmodern blender. Now imagine that Roseanne Barr drinks the chunky concoction and vomits into a family-shaped jello mold. Chill and serve Sundays at 9. Voila! May I present...the Bundys...
...Voila, another edition of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals...
Less than an hour after the government reported the January rise in unemployment last Friday, interest rates began to fall. First the Federal Reserve Board chopped the discount rate it charges to member banks by half a percentage point, to 6%. Voila! Major commercial banks took the cue immediately, slashing the prime lending rate half a point, to 9%. As a result, consumers can expect to pay a little less for car loans, mortgages and other bank credit, which could help boost the economy out of the recession...
...Voila, the microcar. For about a decade, this urban motorist's dream has been available to thousands of car owners in rural France. In the late 1970s, another era of spiraling oil costs and Middle East tension, a handful of automakers developed midget voitures sans permis (no-license cars) to meet the needs of older consumers in a countryside poorly served by public transportation. Now, as metropolitan streets clog with traffic, savvy businessmen, fashion models and young professionals have seized upon the VSP as a practical, low-hassle alternative to conventional cars for darting around France's major cities...
According to a study of 43 men and women reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, women possess significantly less of the active stomach enzyme. The result is that they absorb about 30% more alcohol into their bloodstreams than men do -- and voila! Taking into account the weight difference between the average man and woman, a mere 2 oz. of liquor has about the same effect on a woman as 4 oz. would on a man. Just why there is such a discrepancy remains a mystery...