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...wrong? McDonald's would never lose business over a few pickles. With billions and billions of hamburgers, that would translate into trillions of pickles and at least millions of dollars. In addition, it would all be tax deductible as charitable donations. There was no possible reason not to adopt the plan, except they did not know...
This combination of money and technology, show biz and sex appeal strikes many foreigners as the epitome of the American success story, and so they adopt English words that imply success itself: super, blue chip, boom, status symbol, summit. Some of that, clearly, is just snobbery. Through U.S. television, says British Grammarian Randolph Quirk, a foreigner can pick up an Americanized vocabulary "if you want to show you're with it and talking like Americans, the most fashionable people on earth." On the other hand, some upper-class Egyptian youths think it is chic to use Anglo-Saxon four-letter...
...what a university preparation is about, learning to judge, learning to think. I am constantly amazed by the distortions and untruths I find in reports and comments about subjects on which I am informed. I therefore cannot help but have a healthy skepticism. I encourage you to adopt the same attitude. It is wise to remember, as my father says, that some people so treasure the truth that they use it with great economy...
...center but help Begich campaign for the seat once held by her husband. Begich, who lost a close race for the seat two years ago, is attempting to follow in the footsteps of Boggs, who has filled her husband's former seat since the plane crash. Said Begich: "She adopted me once before; I suppose it is reasonable that she'll adopt me again...
Spence said that in the future the Universitymay adopt a new policy for dealing with protestsof this sort so that similar protests "will haveto be preceded by prior understandings about theirlocation and duration...