Word: band-aid
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...other way!”). At night, while my classmates were in Chile discovering extrasolar planets, I was in my pajamas discovering the identity of the Half-Blood Prince. While some students were interning at hospitals learning how to save lives, I was giving Little Johnny a Shrek band-aid to cover his knee scrape. The whole idea of even finding a “worthwhile” job was foreign to me: I was shocked to discover that the word “resume” was more than a button on my TiVo remote...
...deal calling for additional proposals for greater background checks of managers and workers, as well as beefed-up security at the terminals if the deal is allowed to go through. That might be one way to salvage this operation. But it may already be too late for that band-aid, no matter how reasonable...
...lowering the limit, now $50, on the value of a single gift that a lobbyist can give a lawmaker or aide, provoking jokes about a $49.50 party to cash in before any change takes effect. Hastert is considering supporting a ban on junkets for members and aides that are financed by outside groups and restricting travel to government-paid trips. An aide involved in the negotiations, skeptical that any meaningful change will result, calls the proposals "a Band-Aid on a gunshot wound...
...world of pretty people and their distracting ways, we just need someone to tell us like it is. As great publications like “Star” were proclaiming a Lachey/Simpson offspring in the womb even after the split was made public, Gawker.com ripped off the band-aid months ago, with headlines such as, “We Don’t Care Who Says What. Nick and Jessica Are Fucking Over. Just Accept It.”Keep listening, oh little ones, for there are more lessons you must learn. Once you’ve made it through...
...fateful party was well-attended, and I drifted from circle to circle, trying to be sociable, but I felt like an old band-aid floating in a swimming pool: directionless, conspicuous for the wrong reasons, and a bit of a downer to anyone who sees...