At that point, the word trillion was rarely mentioned in the news and resided more in the imagination of children, alongside zillions and gazillions, as an expression of something on an enormous scale.
And the bottom line is that once we got past the news of a third explosion at the Japanese nuclear facility in Fukushima and word that radiation levels were rising, the news was actually pretty good for the remainder of the day.
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Today, of course, the word paedophilia is a familiar term in the news lexicon.
It upheld the complaint from the Church of England whose spokesman made no apology for using the word ?cult' in reacting to the news.
And make no mistake, while the president did not use that word in his news conference, that is the word federal authorities are using.
When Grasso replaced William Donaldson as the Big Board's chief in 1994, Reuters covered the story in a 147-word news brief.
Cheers erupted in the Denver Post's newsroom when word came that the newspaper had won the Pulitzer in the breaking news category for its coverage via text, social media and video of the movie theater massacre in Aurora, Colo.
Cheers erupted in the Denver Post's newsroom when word came that the newspaper had won the Pulitzer in the breaking news category for its coverage via text, social media and video of the shooting that killed 12 people during a midnight showing of a new Batman movie last summer.
There's obviously nothing good about seeing your face and that of member of the opposite sex on the front of a tabloid newspaper all over New York, the Daily News, for example, with the word scandal in between the two pictures.
In all the news, I never noticed the word synagogue or Jewish, associated with Madoff.
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It's a word he kept coming back to in his prepared statement at the start of his news conference earlier this week.
In other Facebook news, word is that Microsoft's bankers contacted the social network about acquiring it after the software giant dropped its bid for Yahoo!
What I do know is that, for months now, the news out of Washington has kept one particular word clanging around in my head: accountability.
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Rather than staying mum and hope the storm blows over, News Corporation now needs to demonstrate initiative in word and deed.
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Then the - yes I will write the word - "gaffe", which was in fact an aside during a rare presidential news conference.
NBC, a unit of General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ), was careful to put the word "home team" in quotes.
"We've introduced the word dilbit into the national conversation about energy, " said David Sassoon, publisher of InsideClimate News, based in Brooklyn.
In other news, tipster Robert K. just got word that his Play.com pre-order of the Wii won't be honored at launch.
The first occurred when word of a contract negotiated by the union representing Somali and other workers at a plant in Shelbyville, Tennessee made national news.
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