Word: belt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...everyone quickly points out that Gates is "the smartest guy I've ever met." Yet he gets locked out of his $40 million house and stuck in the yard, doesn't wear a seat belt while driving recklessly and thinks his daughter is "just beginning to develop a personality." He doesn't have the courtesy to offer a guest a soft drink when he serves himself, leaves his wife for an annual weekend with his former girlfriend and is loud in restaurants. With cold arrogance, Gates incorrectly equates intelligence with being smart, and being smart with being good. Your portrayal...
...Elderly drivers, be warned. In early findings the government reports that AIR BAGS may have no net benefit for drivers over 70. The bags' explosive force can crush frail, aging bones--even cause death. Advice: sit far from the bag, and wear a seat belt...
...this employment largesse. A fault line divides the workers with the knowledge and credentials to get good jobs from those individuals, many of whom live in inner cities, who lack the basic education to cash in. Significant regional variations apply too. Beyond Wall Street and Boston's high-tech belt, the Northeast has barely begun to recapture jobs lost in the last downturn. And the fear of downsizing still sends shivers through offices and factories at Fortune 500 companies everywhere, destroying any sense of job entitlement and dampening employee wage demands. "It's almost a paradise for job seekers...
Despite this record, Gates is not wearing a seat belt. (A dilemma: Is it too uncool to use mine?) He rarely looks at you when he talks, which is disconcerting, but he does so when he's driving, which is doubly disconcerting. (I buckle up. As his mother and others have learned, it's not always prudent to compete.) He turns into a dark drive with a chain-link fence that slides open as the Lexus approaches. It's nearing midnight, and the security guard looks a bit startled...
While those vacationing in states below the snow belt enjoyed unseasonably warm weather, heavy snow and rain in the Northwest and Midwest forced some Harvard students to alter their plans...