Word: hovering
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...mound of papers, and we need to have some way of getting swiftly at the vitals of letters or articles or presentations. But the habit of skimming is too easily carried over to creative reading. Few things are more rewarding than the way the mind can hover over a luminous paragraph or even a phrase, allowing it to light up the imagination. The way the mind transforms little markings on paper into images is one of the highest manifestations of human uniqueness...
...behind the debate are the families who live the minimal life. More than 3 million Americans survive on the minimum wage, and millions more, like the Wellses, hover just above it. As inflation hummed along at 4% or 5% a year and buying power eroded, many lost their financial footing and slipped below the poverty line: a full-time worker at minimum wage still falls about $2,000 short of the subsistence level ($9,890 for a family of three). While it is true that most minimum-wage workers are teenagers or part-time employees, there are millions more...
...finals against Graf, including the French Open, where she became the youngest winner in this century of a Grand Slam title. The penultimate player Seles beat at the French was the youngest Grand Slam semifinalist ever: Jennifer Capriati, 14, who has just finished the eighth grade. Seles tends to hover around the baseline and is less than overpowering on serve, so she may not flourish on grass, although her crushing return of serve is a potent weapon on any surface. But Capriati has an aggressive all-surface game. Says veteran NBC commentator Bud Collins: "She could do some real damage...
Bush declared last week that the S&L debacle causes him "great concern," but tried to hover well above the fray, contending, "We don't know the impact on the taxpayer yet." One likely reason for his evasion: on the same day that Brady unveiled the new estimates, Bush's third son, Neil, was explaining to the House Banking Committee his role in the downfall of the Silverado Savings and Loan of Denver. Bush, 34, is under investigation for potential conflicts of interest as a director of the thrift. In 1986 he voted to approve a $106 million loan...
...Clay's comedy, woman is only a sexual convenience, a sentimental slag, a "dishrag hoo-er." For him, all romantic encounters hover between mechanical sex and date rape. "So I say to the bitch, 'Lose the bra -- or I'll cut ya.' Is that a wrong attitude?" The obvious answer is yes. Nearly everything he says is wildly heinous. Clay knows this, and so do his fans; their laughter is a release at hearing forbidden thoughts twisted into jokes. Says Leonard R.N. Ashley, an English professor at Brooklyn College: "Because the seven dirty words are in now common usage, there...