Word: nearest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Right now the nearest [recreational facility] is the Mac, which is a little distance," said Paul Hsu '00, who said he would like to see a billiard table in Loker...
With the news of Tung's landslide victory (320 votes to his nearest rival's 42), the usually forbearing Hong Kong police arrested 29 noisy protesters outside the convention center. "This sends an appalling message," a senior government official said afterward. "There is concern that some police might feel they need to act a certain way because of the Chinese." As for Tung, he went off to the Chinese city of Shenzhen the next day to receive Beijing's formal endorsement. He will officially take office on July 1, 1997, the day Hong Kong reverts to China...
...however, an easy place to be technological. Twenty miles from the nearest power line and perhaps twice as far from the nearest phone, the monastery is more than two hours from Albuquerque and an hour from anything that resembles civilization. No telephone bells fracture the silence. No TV images smear the crisp evening air. No pagers chirp. If you must reach one of the monks, a hand-carved wooden sign offers a simple 16th century suggestion: "Ring this bell...
...retorts--creepy but all too useful. In the daily battlefield of misunderstandings and impatient busyness, such locutions as Don't go there, In your dreams and What part of no don't you understand? are Nerf-like weaponry: When you're blind with anger or exasperation, you grab the nearest item of modular meanness. Of course, not all coolster coinages are overtly fightin' words. Indeed, some affect affectlessness: Same old, same old; Blah blah blah; Yadda yadda yadda. But given the right nuances, indifference can pack a wallop: Yadda will outsnide blah, for instance but wither before the passive-aggressive...
...that we have the chance, let's remind the council that our money is real money--not Monopoly dollars to be thrown at the nearest concert promoter...