Word: warmers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Greetings from Houston! Well, I sure don't miss the Windy City. It's a lot warmer here without that long shadow that always seemed to dog me in Chicago, and my relationship with the Rockets owner is a lot less chilly than the one I had with Jerry Reinsdorf. Too bad I won't be seeing you in the play-offs. Take care, Scottie...
...been feeling in their bones: Baby, it's hot outside. In fact, 1998 will go down as the warmest year on the planet since temperature records have been kept. Worse, 1998 will be recorded as the 20th year in a row that the surface of the earth has been warmer than its recent long-term average. Researchers worry that we may have seen nothing...
...both pushing products of their own companies. Those I'm-the-wonderful-CEO ads are also justified as being good for the company--at least in the CEO's own swollen head. There has been published speculation that Gates made the golf-club ad in order to seem warmer and cuddlier. This probably isn't true (as his employee, I already find him entirely lovable). But even the notion of making a commercial endorsement as a way of humanizing your image would have seemed, until recently, bizarre...
...like to use reverse psychology on Mother Nature. People wear pants too early and Mother Nature sees this and makes it colder sooner. The way you get warm days is that some freak students like myself have been wearing shorts and She has seen us and made it warmer." Averell has not yet published in the New England Journal of Medicine...
...freshman year because of a bet. Some of his classmates noticed he was donning shorts frequently and offered to buy him hot chocolate if he could hold out on wearing pants until December first. Not one to turn down a wager, Boyce accepted the challenge. To keep himself warmer he would wear a long, heavy, green coat over his bare legs. "I looked like a flasher," Boyce says. To this day, he admits that "once December rolls around, that's about...