Word: wastebasket
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...children's voices are pitched higher than adults'. When your child is around age three, let her explore a keyboard, listening with her as the notes rise and fall in pitch. Sing a note as it is played, and plunk out simple tunes. Dancing, skipping and banging on a wastebasket are also advisable. Suzuki training on strings and keyboard can begin as early as three. Most children can learn to play a recorder and pick out tunes on a piano at around...
...other nurses. Maher apparently was one of the least favored members of Safra's medical staff (the 67-year-old banker suffered from Parkinson's disease) and wanted to win his boss's favor by painting himself as a hero. So he started a small fire in a wastebasket, claimed two knife-wielding hooded men entered the apartment - and slashed himself. The plan was to say he scared off the assailants and saved...
...without anything coherent to bring us together. We've been enjoying ourselves, merrily afloat on the Good Ship United States, soaking up the remnants of our parents' and older acquaintances' good fortunes, loudly predicting our own success in a few years. A few years of an economy in the wastebasket might cause us to stop thinking about choosing a decorator for our midtown studio and start considering how we might actually make a useful contribution to the world around...
...WASTEBASKET BABY...
...guard against breaches in security. A motion detector was activated every time the room was locked, and there were separate deadbolt locks on the back room that housed a computer linked to a mainframe at Petrocelli's office at Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp. The back room had an important blue wastebasket; everything that went into it was put through a shredder. Periodically, Suite 205 was swept for bugging devices. It was in this secure area that the plaintiffs saw 30 more keys to victory...