Word: wave
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Home banking is the "second wave" in this automation revolution. On-line bill payment decreases check-processing costs for banks, and every customer who tracks his or her balance through a home computer makes it one less person who needs to call a customer service phone number...
...been a Clinton fan from way back. I worked locally on both presidential campaigns and voted for him in my first election. In 1992, I got to visit the West Wing, meet George Stephanopoulos and see the President wave at us on his way to his jog. I wasn't a groupie, but I came pretty close. Which is why I have felt ill ever since seeing the President apparently lie to us in last week's interview with Jim Lehrer and continue to lie to us throughout his subsequent four-day silence...
Even when the meet was over and the team completed the tradition by carrying Oren along the pool deck on a stretcher and dumping him back into the water on the other side of the pool, the Iron Man of this year had the strength left to smile and wave to his fans...
This might have been Clinton's easiest State of the Union yet. As the Republicans drift, he is riding a wave of popularity that is beginning to look permanent. Last week's TIME/CNN poll showed his approval rating at 59%, and it has not dipped below 50% in the past two years. He has quieted talk about his being disengaged (and having a golf fixation) by rolling out a string of popular new proposals, even as he promises to produce a balanced budget three years ahead of schedule. The speech is his chance to transcend Paula Jones, independent counsels...
...Americans went into sports mania willingly and with their eyes wide open. There is a human need, perhaps especially in a culture that routinely pits each against all in a relentless competition for parking spaces and aisle seats, to achieve the ecstatic merger with the mass represented by the wave or the chop. Besides, if this is the old Roman bread-and-circuses ploy, someone seems to have left out the bread...