Word: phrasing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...baby boomers, the museum freezes under glass that deceptively innocent era, roughly from the late '60s to the late '70s, when the phrase recreational drugs had not yet become a tragicomic oxymoron. In addition to the paraphernalia collection--which resembles nothing so much as a college dorm room circa 1975--there are photos of such icons of the day as Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Timothy Leary (twice!), as well as the shorter-lived Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix...
...Puffin's kin 2. Sale-tag phrase 3. Polly, to Tom 4. One of Mia's exes 5. HUD secretary who's proposing new laws to curb predatory lending practices 6. McCain's father and grandfather: Abbr. 7. Hole starter 8. NSX automaker 9. Its projected insolvency has been pushed back to 2023 10. Pay stub? 11. Machiavellian 16. Heights that Syria would like to recover 19. It may have an EIK 21. Novi __, Serbia 22. Alaska's first Governor 23. It's worth about a penny 24. He now wants to ban "soft money" 25. They want to resume...
...Even so, the phrase "general studies" and the shadow non-concentration it conjures have managed to survive long after the faculty interred any general knowledge undergraduate program...
...take this opportunity to establish an official policy on the use of alternative code names. In 1992, a renegade cadre of Secret Service employees, in direct contradiction of official Service policy, began to refer to our current President, Eagle, as "Elvis." Apparently, these employees particularly enjoyed saying the phrase "Elvis has left the building" into their wrist microphones. This practice, in addition to creating confusion among protective details, created a climate of mistrust between Eagle and the Service, a mistrust unfortunately exacerbated by the leaking of the lamp-throwing story...
...such protests may be in vain. An article in yesterday's New York Times began with the phrase, "Underscoring Stanford University's deep relationship with Silicon Valley...