Word: autopilot
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...torture myself so? Simple: love triumphs over hate. As it turns out, Leah is an excellent teacher. Week after week she goes through the same routine without ever falling into autopilot. She is very "present in the moment," as she might describe it. Leah offers cautions about overexertion, suggestions on how to do each pose at various levels of challenge, and great good humor. Last week she talked about a meditation seminar she had attended and called the impromptu lecture her "sermon...
...plane caused the accident is almost laughable. Such an explanation is like blaming a snail for running into an ant. It was the Chinese who decided to fly dangerously close to the U.S. plane in international waters. Moreover, earlier this week word came that the U.S. plane was on autopilot at the time of the crash, making the Chinese explanation that the U.S. plane swerved into the Chinese fighter jet highly implausible...
...sweeps history, "Survivor" chose a bad time to slip its loyalists the stinky fish. The show has just come upon its structural Achilles' heel: the post-merge voting. As soon as the balance shifts between the members of the just-dissolved tribes, the show goes on a dreary autopilot while the majority methodically votes out the minority...
...moderates who just made Bush's list - Republicans Lincoln Chafee, Susan Collins, Jim Jeffords, Olympia Snowe and Arlen Specter, plus Democrats Bob Torricelli, Evan Bayh, Thomas Carper, Dianne Feinstein, Mary Landrieu and Debbie Stabenow - have seized on it. If the projections go sour, they reason, a tax cut on autopilot could cut into debt reduction and shove the federal government back...
...last 18 months of her life, Henry Roy's mother lived with Roy in Philadelphia. They were in and out of hospitals frequently, and he says he put his emotions on hold in order to care for her. When she died in February, he went on autopilot, arranging her funeral and cleaning out her St. Louis, Mo., apartment. "I still feel like I haven't addressed it," says Roy, 47, of her death. It took him six months to clear out the bedroom he'd made for her, and he has yet to go through the belongings that fill...