Word: boredome
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...human terms, it means much, much more. Getting in shape, spraining ankles, overcoming the overtime jitters, suffering from bench boredom, worrying about the team's success; all of the personal triumphs and disappointments, large and small. Senior co-captains Wendy Carle and Caryn Curry have put in that kind of time, energy, and care into four years of Harvard basketball, and with the loss to Princeton in last weekend's Ivy tournament, their college basketball careers came to an abrupt...
...book is organized alphabetically, so "A" is for anorexia and anatomy lab, "B" is for boredom and beauty, "C" is for cheating and creativity, and "D" is for drugs, drop-outs and dreams...
Every Friday, weekend gamblers from Southern California make the five-hour drive to Las Vegas. When the radio signals fade, deep boredom sets in. But next month a new FM station, KRXV, will come to the rescue with news, weather, tourist information, plus the music of Vegas headliners. Owner Howard Anderson won approval for his station, which will beam its signal directly along the highway, by arguing that his listeners form a "mobile community" with common needs. Not all of them are wagerers, however. Seems that fully 25% of the 23 million people who drive the route each year peel...
...Offstage he was celebrated for his frolics with the famous, including a 1940s dalliance with Greta Garbo. (Said she: "He was the only man I ever allowed to touch my vertebrae.") What he did live by passionately was his dictum: "Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore...
...blue collar blues is not good for productivity. So companies started to look for ways to avoid blue collar blues. Autonomous groups became one solution. Job rotation was another. Group assembly was hailed as the revolution that did away with the boredom of assembly lines...