Word: certainly
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...proposed highway bypass will route traffic around Fort Madison. So the true secret of the town's success, then, can be found every Thursday morning at the sinfully addictive Ivy Bake Shoppe, where Martha Wolf and Susan Welch Saunders' blackberry scones make the sorry impostors at a certain ubiquitous coffee-house chain taste like clay pigeons, and where a juiced-up group of local retailers and other die-hards plot strategies for the town, not just for it to survive but to prosper...
...knew John, but only slightly - liked him, admired him. The things they said, after the crash, about what a nice guy he was - all that was true. He had patience, and, I thought, a suave acumen. I'm fairly certain that he had political plans, that he might have methodically beefed himself up for a Senate run sometime after he had matured into his forties. And after that, after he had left the mere gorgeous hunk image far behind, then.... Instead, he died...
...epiphany recently as I watched the movie Life Is Beautiful: certain DVDs ought to carry a warning that they're unsuitable for consumption in public. There I was, viewing the Oscar winner on a portable DVD player and sobbing like a freshly minted Mafia widow. The last time I cried so hard at a movie was as a kid when Old Yeller bought it at the end. Only this time, instead of containing my grief by burying my head in a bucket of popcorn in a darkened movie theater, I was bawling on a 7:30 a.m. train to Manhattan...
Hanging over it all was a certain legal proceeding. Days earlier, Microsoft got rare good news: Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson stayed his order dividing up the company pending appeal. Microsoft lawyers were busily drafting briefs urging the Supreme Court to hold back and let a presumably more pro-Microsoft appeals court get a crack at it first. But in Building No. 33, Gates was dodging the topic. Pressed by a reporter, he insisted nothing in .NET had been influenced by the case. Some observers, however, saw it as at least partly an effort to fend off a break-up. Jackson...
...Republican National Convention] Yes, for certain politicians to see if they can be pro-choice and still be considered a vice-presidential contender