Word: want
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Department of Transportation's budget prohibiting the DOT from raising the standards to equal those for ordinary cars--a move environmentalists say would save 1 million bbl. of oil a day. Backers of the rider argue that they are protecting auto-industry jobs and giving consumers the vehicles they want, but now they are running into stronger opposition. Next week the Senate may consider a complicated parliamentary move proposed by three Senators--one Republican, Slade Gorton of Washington, and two Democrats, Dianne Feinstein of California and Richard Bryan of Nevada--that could finally overturn the rider, though at last count...
...keep saying 'Uh-huh,' which implies 'Get on with it!' Instead, try 'Mmm-hmm,' with a nod, which says, 'I'm taking this in.' Also, don't keep track of time. Have an aide tap you rather than look at your watch. You want to make the person you're talking to feel they're the only person on the planet." --DR. JOYCE BROTHERS...
...campaign is closer to pure tract evangelism. Viewers who dial the 800 number receive the 134-page booklet, which employs simple metaphors like a country road or a broken golf club in support of the classic invitation. "All you do is, by an act of your will, say, 'I want You, Jesus, to take over my life.'" Participants in an earlier Power drive in 1983 have claimed that several million people ordered the book...
...families have stopped talking. "Me, myself, my days of speaking to Paula are over," Tommy Rogers tells TIME. "Paula wants everything--all the money, both kids. I reckon you get greedy sometimes." Johnson has a different view. "Things just deteriorated over time, and it's got worse," she tells TIME. "No, it doesn't have nothing to do with money, not on my part anyway." Why does she think she is entitled to custody of Rebecca as well as Callie? "Being a mother, maybe my maternal instincts kicked in," Johnson says. "She's my daughter. I gave birth...
Gargan's strategy, if he had one, was to play the reluctant warrior. His shock troops were made up of three befuddled senior citizens who swooshed around the ballroom wearing GARGAN'S GEEZERS T shirts. He compared the chairmanship to captaining the Titanic. "I don't want the damned job," he said. "But I'm not about to let this ship go down." Proof that he was a hard worker? He used to drive live chickens to market, a job that meant stopping every few minutes and beating the sides of the truck to keep the birds flapping and alive...