Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Into this happy workplace stumbles Maria Takis, eight months pregnant with the child of her former boss at the Australian Taxation Office. She is doing penance for her imprudent affair, and her punishment is to be assigned to investigate crummy outfits like Catchprice Motors. Maria is rapidly losing her illusions: "She knew already what she would find if she audited this business: little bits of crookedness, amateurish, easily found. The unpaid tax and the fines would then bankrupt the business...
Still, we were lucky. The weather was overcast and dry -- perfect climbing conditions. When the official investigators made the journey in 1990, it had been cold and rainy, turning the ascent into a treacherous hands-and-knees affair...
...remember a time when she was not scuffling with boys to be first in line. When she devoured books on ancient Egypt, her father was gratified. But movies also held her in thrall. Paglia's love affair with popular culture, which forms the forthcoming second volume of Personae, was already blossoming when she was a child. "Egypt and Hollywood were equivalent phenomena to me, equally rich and fabulous," she says. Her father demurred. "He lectured me on Voltaire's disapproval of actors," Camille recalls, "and this was the time when I was making my collection of 599 Elizabeth Taylor pictures...
...Huskies enter this affair with an overall 4-5 record. While Coach Joy Malchodi claims that her team is weakened by a bout with the flu, Delaney Smith won't let her squad overlook the Huskies...
Just as demanding was the education he undertook to make his love affair with Ebaugh work the second time around. In counseling, the man about whom it is said that talking to him is like listening to a radio began to tame his mouth. "I started to listen, and not be judgmental, and wait until someone was through rather than interrupting them, and then think about what they said before I prepared an answer," he says. "I learned to give and take better than I had previously...