Word: overhead
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bear with me, it'll probably be fun filler, a nice column to read on the airplane while you wait for the lady with the 10 carry-ons to cram them into the overhead compartment, the exit row aisle and the beverage cart. You can wave your copy of The Crimson around so that everyone knows you go to Harvard, just in case your Coop sweatshirt doesn't give it away...
...problem has morphed from potential cataclysm to commercial punch line: a Nike ad shows a man going for a jog New Year's morning as the lights flicker out around town, money shoots out of ATMs, people panic in the streets, and an errant missile zooms by overhead. On the one hand, the passing of a thousand years is staggering for a mortal of perhaps 80 years' life-span to apprehend; on the other, its commercialization renders it trivial. No wonder some people are stepping back to mark the occasion in a small-scale, personal way--to take a time...
...cutting out overhead costs such as inventory expenses and large staff, virtual bookstores can offer prices below retail. Yet how much of a discount on-line vendors offer is a matter of dispute...
...invasion of privacy that bothers me. My privacy is invaded in so many ways by so many different entities each day that I'm getting used to living in a glass house. When I step into a bank or an elevator and see a video camera overhead, I know I'm being recorded; the camera is usually right out there for me and everyone else to see. When I use my credit card to buy a meal, I know that American Express is recording that I've chalked up yet another overpriced expense-account lunch. And I know that AmEx...
...evident that the alternatives are not cost effective and at best produce only a placebo effect, the HMOs will drop them in a heartbeat. Says William Jarvis, a professor of public health at California's Loma Linda University: "Useless procedures don't add to the outcome, just to the overhead...