Word: precious
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...sitting before a mirror having makeup applied--a superfluous act. She is being prepped for the first of two shoots she will submit to this afternoon. Hotshot photogs have been flown in from the States because Jones has agreed to give them some of her time--and time is precious in the world of Marion Jones. Every minute between now and Sept. 22 has been carefully planned...
...sitting before a mirror having makeup applied - a superfluous act. She is being prepped for the first of two shoots she will submit to this afternoon. Hotshot photogs have been flown in from the States because Jones has agreed to give them some of her time - and time is precious in the world of Marion Jones. Every minute between now and Sept. 22 has been carefully planned...
...Political conventions are conducted in a style in which the truth cannot be told. The Democrats have spent the week citing the falsities of the Republicans in Philadelphia (the phony diversity, for example, all those conservatives wagging their heads and singing, "Red and yellow, black and white/ They are precious in His sight/ Jesus loves the little children of the world...
...critics' response came last week: a campaign to muster public opposition to the FDA's new rules and to target individual companies and their precious trademarks. The mock advertisements for "Campbull's Experimental Vegetable Soup," with the advisory, "Warning: This Product Is Untested," is only the first salvo. Some 18 other brand-name U.S. companies are on a tentative hit list, including General Mills, Coca-Cola and Kraft...
...represents everything that's wrong with American standardized tests, and SAT prep represents everything that's wrong with American education. Forget teaching to a test. I'm teaching inside a test--living, breathing and eating the SAT, stretching for a precious 10 points here, squirming for another 10 there...