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These feelings are especially appropriate in today’s society, where individual importance takes a backseat to technological impersonality, especially in family situations. Richard and Justin’s childhoods recall the joke about how modern parents ask their children to come downstairs to dinner with instant messenger...
...assured his undoubtedly alarmed audience. The leader's latest revelations came less than a month after it was discovered that his government has been investigating bank accounts of activist groups and journalists who have been critical of the Prime Minister, though far more openly than their smear-from-the-backseat sympathizers. (The probes were supposedly prompted by an anonymous tip to the Antimoney Laundering Office that the journalists were members of a criminal organization.) As far as a fifth column of commuters is concerned, Bangkok's cab drivers claim to be in the dark. "We're a tight-knit community...
...following your every move. Jamie and David have handled themselves with the greatest of dignity in a tough situation, and I commend them for that. But just as in 1994, what has happened in Salt Lake City is not fair to the other athletes, whose accomplishments have taken a backseat. That's a loss for everyone. These Games began as a celebration of humanity and our ability to unite the world. Let's get back to the Games and share in the pride of these great athletes...
...Brien, currently state treasurer, labeled herself “the environmental treasurer.” And Birmingham, president of the state senate, said, “I’m not going to take a backseat to anybody...
While the Aztek was well engineered and efficient to produce, design was relegated to the backseat. "There wasn't anyone who would take responsibility or threaten to quit over his principles," says a GM design executive. Lutz, however, as friend and foe agree, is just that kind...