Word: fading
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...While PBHA remains student-governed, I don't believe the 'institutional memory' will ever really fade," Garland says. "The College officials seem to think that it will, but the strongest thing that ties PBHA together is its stories, which are continually being made and retold. Our history and our stories are so important to us that we pass them along as intact as possible...
...work ethic, attitude and resilience I possess have been developed in my classwork and experiences within Harvard life. So I am a happy graduate. It's odd, but when I think about this fact, everything else--the advising, the randomization, the General Wong's chicken--all seems to fade away. Like my diploma, family, friends and jobs, happiness is something I plan to hold onto...
Another downside: because users feel empathetic, ecstasy can lower sexual inhibitions. Men generally cannot get erections when high on e, but they are often ferociously randy when its effects begin to fade. Dr. Robert Klitzman, a psychiatrist at Columbia University, has found that men in New York City who use ecstasy are 2.8 times more likely to have unprotected...
Whiffs of inflation are in the air, and a dead-tired stock market is sending the message that economic troubles lurk. It hardly seems possible that prosperous times will soon fade. Profits are up, and record numbers of Americans are at work. Yet the paradox of a market economy is that stock investors get scorched near the end of a robust expansion, while good times still roar. The reverse is true at the trough of a recession, when times are toughest...
...seem to be inoculated against this danger." As she prepares for her first year of college, where she plans to major in English, Tarbox says she has that now. But while she's all smiles on the outside, it's clear the emotional scars will take much longer to fade...