Word: enjoyability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...days a week, at Newell Boathouse in order to prepare for five six-minute races in the spring. I keep going back for more exhausting practices that often leave me bleeding, blistered and sore. I even sacrificed a raffle-won Spring Break trip to Bermuda to enjoy a week of intense two-a-day practices on the sun-dappled Rio Carlos. All this despite the fact that I am not even that good at the sport compared to my teammates on the first-year lightweight squad...
...course, they do take time out from Tetris to go every year to the Head of the Charles and root for the home team, after stocking up on T-shirts, hot pretzels and beer. Thanks for your support, and enjoy those shirts. But we rowers know a poser shirt when we see one, and we know whom you are trying to fool...
Living with people who have the same values and goals and who enjoy the same things is hardly the same as living in a house full of clones. Housing by choice encourages people to feel a strong sense of identity with a particular group. It creates a neighborhood of self-assured communities who, by nature of their confidence in themselves, do not feel threatened by other groups...
...ultra-left press" and "Zionists." They have called for an end to subsidies paid out of the national budget to other republics and for the creation of separate government agencies, public organizations and a television network to serve only Russia -- all of which the other 14 republics already enjoy. Valentin Rasputin, a nationalist writer known for his portrayals of Russian rural life, has even suggested that Russia consider seceding from the Soviet Union...
...Moscow. These calamities have been as unexpected to us as the disintegration of the world colonial system was to many Marxists. We had rejoiced at the crumbling of that system. At the same time, we believed our empire was protected from such troubles; after all, didn't we enjoy an immunity of sorts in our "eternal brotherhood of peoples...