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...keep it brief"). It also gives advice on--gasp!--how to cheat on your husband or boyfriend ("Cover your tracks"). Um, isn't this tacky or even a bit--dare we say it--déclassé? "We decided it was time for a bit of a change," says editor Jo Aitchison. "Etiquette will be a survival guide for modern life while becoming a trusted friend as well." Yes, the kind of friend your mother never wanted you to bring home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Be A Bad Girl | 10/8/2006 | See Source »

...Sportswriters question whether it's still appropriate to call a missed goal a tragedy or refer to two teams going to battle against each other. And Oxford professor Jean Aitchison wonders whether the very word war has lost its meaning through overuse, speculating that "we are going to have to think up a new word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finding the Right Words | 12/3/2001 | See Source »

...Aitchison Deerfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 19, 1983 | 12/19/1983 | See Source »

Coach Ned Harkness probably will not tamper with his two established lines, and will bring up instead one of the extra forwards. In that case, sophomore Brian McCutcheon and Bob Aitchison will team with junior Bob Giuliani on the second line, and Dick Bertrand, Bob McGuinn, and Garth Ryan make up an all-junior third line...

Author: By Mark H. Odonoghue, | Title: Icemen Challenge Cornell For League Championship | 2/26/1969 | See Source »

...Clyde B. Aitchison of the .Interstate Commerce Commission wryly suggested that witnesses before the commission ought to take the following oath: "I swear that what I am about to read has been faithfully and truthfully prepared for me by my attorneys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Oct. 6, 1947 | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

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