Word: beane
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Plots eventually intrude in both books -- a jail term in Social Disease, a heist at L.L. Bean in I'll Take It -- but these are as unwelcome as the roast beef a heedless hostess might plop on Paul's dinner plate. The M&M's of bon mots are the real nourishment. Which suggests a criticism of Rudnick's prose: it's all candy. Wouldn't a truly serious author hang crape on Guy and Venice, or Hedy and her sisters? But Rudnick sees them as variations on the Addams family: they may be crazy, but they have...
After years of watching UHS run up budget deficits, University bean counters had decided enough was enough. UHS would have to live within its budget, the University said. Rosenthal would have to sort out the details...
Practice proved brutal on Bobby's knees, but not nearly as brutal as the media attention. Though he had labored from age six in his father's tobacco, bean and corn fields, had served in Vietnam and had worked on car bodies and pipes for 23 years, he had never been through anything quite like the blitz he endured last month in New York City. "It just drained me. Interview and shoot. Interview and shoot. Interview and shoot," he says, looking dazed at the memory. He heard reporters making bets that he'd miss his big shot. "They kept saying...
...could select any item from an encyclopedic menu of offerings and have it routed directly to your television set or computer screen. A movie? Airline listings? Tomorrow's newspaper or yesterday's episode of Northern Exposure? How about a new magazine or book? A stroll through the L.L. Bean catalog? A teleconference with your boss? A video phone call with your lover? Just punch up what you want, and it appears just when you want...
...comes from the CPU, the hard disk, and the liquid crystal display, or ICD, screen, Most modern notebooks to run as long as possible on a single charge, have some sort of power management, with or without the help of a 386SI. A software driver determines which devices have bean idle of a lecture always looms over your notebook computing life. One solution: Get a notebook that uses nickel hydride (NH) batteries, which on the average have 50% longer life than the more common and lest expensive nickel cadmider...