Word: barring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scene, a Jew sees a former neighbor, and the neighbor says to him, "You're still alive? I thought you would be a bar of soap...
...tired. But unfortunately, path-dependency's effects are not limited to our careers. It touches almost everything we do. Imagine that you go into the dining hall for dinner and find that nothing served that evening suits your tastes. You could make yourself some sort of extensive salad-bar concoction, or bake yourself a tuna melt in the microwave or go out for dinner instead. But those options require more time, more money, more ingenuity--and the dining hall's shake'n'bake chicken is sitting right there waiting for you. It's as initially inefficient to make your...
...arrives, or make a collage of photos of her and her friends. You could take her "trick or treating," traveling from one friend's room to another collecting gifts or little cards or tributes and gathering people as you go before ending up at a traditional party or bar en masse. You could take her ice-skating or to a cooking class. Or give her something, anything, that is truly particular to her. Yet the only thing that most people think of doing is taking the person out to dinner and buying them drinks. Like the Qwerty keyboard, it does...
Forget Wellesley. Disco night at The Phoenix Landing promises dancing on the tables and sing-alongs with favorites of the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s as the Boom Boom Room takes over the bar with DJ Vinney. And the Boston Tab voted it one of the top 10 places for romance in the city--if the music's loud, she won't be able to hear his stupid jokes. 512 Massachusetts Ave., Central Square, 576-6260, FREE...
...Haig was once a director), has said it wants out of the in-flight-entertainment business, a desire repeated at the company's annual meeting a day after Swissair's announcement. Company executives say the airlines want cheaper, simpler systems, and the market has been depressed because U.S. regulations bar gambling on flights that take off or land in the U.S. That means no passengers on Swissair 111, which left from New York City's Kennedy airport, were swiping their credit cards through the system to play the slots. Still, 70 minutes after takeoff, their luck...