Word: bit
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...startling as this similarity may seem, I will be the first to acknowledge that our job prospects are somewhat different. While both our resumes are one page long, for example, his entries pack a bit more punch...
...problems, if anyone promises that such a thing exists, then that person is nothing but a con artist; he's out to deceive you. At such turning points in history, all sorts of people come forward in the political, economic and cultural arenas. Some are just a bit strange, while others are downright dangerous. It's important to know which kind you're dealing with. No one will announce that he is out to destroy society or that he is against the interests of the people; he will bare his chest and claim to be marching under the banner...
...want cold war-type anxieties and constitutional indelicacies to be applied in nonmilitary realms -- in the environmental area, for instance, where restraints might be far more intrusive than military protectiveness, perhaps involving close public scrutiny of industrial practices, even household behavior? Instead it may be time to relax a bit and give room to other, more positive and less anxious goals: health, liberty, equity, cultural enrichment, environmental enhancement -- for their own sake rather than security...
There were no cameras to immortalize the moment, but this time, The Goal was all in the wrist...and a little bit of practice...
...because residential hotel rooms were often dark and cold; prosperity has changed that. Another is that, with prices high, many people prefer the neighborhood cafe to the famous institutions. Still, the 40th anniversary can be celebrated only at the Cafe de la Mairie, and though it has become a bit fancy -- the old goldfish tank has disappeared, along with the chessboard -- it is still a neighborhood cafe. It bears its literary traditions lightly. It hardly remembers that Saul Bellow used to drink here, and William Faulkner too, or that Djuna Barnes set several scenes in Nightwood here. In fact, when...