Word: phasing
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Catherine Whiteside is flipping through an old photo album, looking for a newspaper clipping of her eldest son, Marquette, winning a 4-H honor as a teenager. She stops to laugh at a picture of him in his "bushy" phase, when his hair was pretty much standing on end. Mother and son are close. People often think they're a couple because she looks so young at 42, with her taut muscles and sleek pageboy. "You know what he did while he was with the Army in Germany?" she asks mischievously. "He was dancing, stripping, under the name Scissor...
...opposed Jim's enlistment. His entire senior year of high school, he had talked about following his father and grandfather into the service. But because he was only 17 when he graduated, Jim needed both parents' permission to sign up. Thinking her son was just going through a phase, Jocelyn refused. She still "was in denial," she says, when he joined the Army two days after turning 18. Nonetheless, she says, "I'm proud of him for doing what he believed in." Although Jocelyn opposes the war, she never leaves the house without her gold star, a pin distributed...
Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby said in an interview before the meeting that the process is still in the brainstorming phase...
...keep growing into myself, and the show just keeps evolving. I think the shows have veered away from doing so many topics that were of the same nature. I went through a phase where we did a lot of spiritual-related shows, and this year we just did more fun things, I think...
...fiscal house in order: ask those at the top and big corporations to pay more of their fair share, cap discretionary spending at the rate of inflation, return to pay-as-you-go budgeting, eliminate wasteful duplication in our bureaucracy, crack down on corporate welfare and phase in new spending as we can afford...