Word: lightened
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...business. I immediately learn where these investment bankers spend their 80-hour weeks: in cubicles, in front of a computer monitor. This is an Internet economy, and Shemmer conducts the vast majority of his business online--trading e-mail messages, surfing the Web, with an occasional phone call to lighten the glow of the screen. Shemmer writes a report the way Harvard students write papers, stopping every 10 minutes to check his e-mail. He estimates that he gets between 50 and 100 e-mails...
...transplant brains, choose to be obese, eat less meat, reduce waste and not need to have sex to have babies, let's not forget to play. Play is essential for maintaining well-being. This will be especially true if we live longer and healthier lives. We'll need to lighten up and not be self-congratulatory in old age. MARC BEKOFF Professor of Biology University of Colorado Boulder, Colo...
...action in the film, and there is a perceptible difference. Steeped in violence, many of the movie's jokes are considerably darker than those in his other films and are sometimes reminiscent of Pulp Fiction banter. Fortunately, the two perverted prophets, along with a comic-booky atmosphere, lighten the mood and get more than their fair share of screen time. Although some of duo's jokes are simply bromidic facsimiles of the gags from the other Jersey flicks (like I've never heard Jay say "hard-on" before), most remind you that one can never have enough Silent...
...just do that to lighten the load and help me focus a little bit more on football," he says...
Occasionally speakers used some humor to lighten up the tone of their presentations...