Word: thanked
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...There is this perception of Islam that, as a religion, it doesn't support the advancement of women, and I thank Harvard College for helping break that stereotype," she said...
This desire-to-get-rich-quick gene seems permanently grafted onto American society, which probably explains the incredible success of shows like ABC's "Who Wants to be A Millionaire" and Fox's "Greed," (thank you, Fox, for telling it like it is). It also goes a long way to explaining the real reason why the stock market performed so atrociously last week. What could possibly more seductive than the prospect of making untold amounts of money from an IPO for a website, something that anyone with a modicum of technological savvy can create and maintain? How many times over...
...more regrettable than lost heroism, even more lamentable than the missed opportunities for maternal affection, is the effect of e-mail on our minds and mores. The authority on the latter, Miss Manners, writes that e-mail is simply inappropriate for condolences, apologies, thank-you's and other occasions when only a letter will do: "Even without tearstains, there is just something earnest-looking about those wandering lines and shadings of ink." Some of this apparent earnestness is surely due to the strict laws that still govern letter writing. For all the talk of "netiquette" (which delights Miss Manners...
...might have enough money left over to buy a cup of coffee while you fuel up during your next pit stop, but don't be so quick to thank OPEC. The recent drop in gas prices - more than two cents a gallon in the last two weeks - isn't a trickle-down effect of last month's OPEC decision. Trickle-down isn't a fast process, and it's hardly possible that the oil production increase was finalized, the taps turned on, and supplies replenished enough to lower prices so rapidly just one month after the group's decision...
...move out of her apartment and finally change her name and her life. But there's never a cry for pity, a whiff of the self-righteous. When her ditsy secretary confesses that it was she who gave Tony her home number, Theresa offers the expected pat of sympathy--"Thank you for telling me. I know that was hard to do." Then she fires...