Entitlement is the new black, it seems (and also my vote for Word of the Year).
And now, the 2007 Word of the Year as been announced, and it is - drum roll please - subprime.
Every year, the American Dialect Society, which is dedicated to the study of American English, votes on a word of the year.
The word of the year doesn't have to be brand new, but it does need to have the flair of the year.
Labour leader Ed Miliband, whose phrase "squeezed middle" - referring to those hit hardest by falling living standards - was word of the year in 2011, made the first recorded use of omnishambles in the House of Commons in April.
Six hours after Lavin left town after receiving word of the death of his 82-year-old father, the Red Storm started slowly against No. 9 Syracuse, rallied hard in the second half, then faded late in a 77-58 loss.
Subscribers number more than 100, 000, and Beauchamp brags of a 20% monthly rate of growth in the past year, most garnered strictly by word-of-mouth advertising.
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The signature moment in this year's use of the W word came in early July when an Obama staffer said that Romney was either a "felon" or was "misrepresenting" in his Federal filing about the length of his tenure as head of Bain Capital.
The Word Heritage Committee meets once a year to implement the convention defining the kind of natural of cultural sites that can be considered for the prestigious list.
The paper also tracked word usage through time (each year, for instance, 1% of the world's English-speaking population switches from "sneaked" to "snuck").
This particular affaire (the French word fittingly can mean either scandal or straightforward business) last year forced the resignation of the finance minister, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who this year has been linked by Mrs Joly to the Elf affaire.
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The goal by the end of the year is 1 million, and Everton is on a campaign to get the word out.
Backed by primarily by some of her savings and one small investor, Ms Oliver launched Tribe Events in July last year, promoting the site through word of mouth and on internet search engine Google.
Louis-based digital word-of-mouth agency Elasticity and is an 18-year veteran of the public industry.
Through word of mouth, this French film became a sleeper sensation over the course of the year.
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This is largely an offshoot of an event -- I use the word "event" somewhat loosely -- last year.
However, word that cost increases at Gap (GPS) would impact earnings in the second half of the year put a dismal stamp on the earnings season for the retailers.
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The most important thing we did this past year to get the word out to our employees about sustainability was the creation of our Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility Scorecard.
She recalled a dramatic case of a 6-year-old patient who was using Google to search the word suicide and trying to eat the carbon off a pencil to harm herself.
No word on price or availability, though we should see it in China before it the end of the year -- now we've just gotta figure out how to sneak one into the States.
Although she spoke hardly a word of English when she first arrived on campus, she ended up among the top 5% of her year.
Medical tourism agencies are expecting this year to be big, as word spreads and the insurance industry warms to the idea of offering low-cost overseas procedures as options in employers' benefits packages.
The word in Congress is that all three bills will be haggled about in parallel, right up until the end of the year.
Park guide Marthinus Sky explains that Tsitsikamma is a Khoe tribe word, which translates as 'many waters', and that the area gets over 1, 200mm of rainfall each year.
But this is the time of year when studios start slowly rolling out smaller movie they hope will develop good word of mouth and grow at the box office (and then land lots of Oscar nominations).
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The Lord Mayor of Oxford has been censured for making a remark towards a 13-year-old girl using the word "sexy".
Word from a variety of sources, including MasterCard and the EIA that gasoline demand has fallen relative to its levels of last year.
Wearing a T-shirt with the word "killer" hand-written on it, TJ Lane, 18, taunted victims of the attack in February last year in Ohio.
We have no word yet on how soon we can expect to see a production version of the new car, but expect to wait another year at least.
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