Word: bits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...still missing that key bit of information: her Social Security number. I visited Deep Data, whose Flake Index promises "a veritable gold mine of data." I paid my $20 and got the same lien information I'd already seen...
...room following his telecast of a New York Knicks-Washington Bullets game. The woman, a divorced mother of two, claims that Albert became enraged when she refused to join in a "three-way" with him and another man and that he threw her on the bed and viciously bit her on the back 10 to 15 times. Then, according to court documents, he did "by force, threat or intimidation engage in an act of sodomy, to wit: fellatio." After the woman sought treatment at a local hospital, the police were notified...
...those cases come to trial, tobacco-industry lawyers could argue that although it might sound a bit callous to say so out loud, some of the 400,000 or so Americans who die before their time because of smoking would otherwise be a drain on the Medicare and Medicaid and welfare systems for the years they would have lived if smoking hadn't rendered them safely deceased...
...weeks of extra education over a student's K-through-12 career. That's 1 1/3 years more learning by today's school calendar: time for students to meet higher standards or even get a head start on college--not a bad way to spend a bit of summertime...
...could be more effective in the skill of their telling. Yet the pieces of the novel don't really hang together, notes Skow. There are at least three such segments, almost distinct enough to be separate stories, and in them Virgil's character swings wildly from ordinary and a bit slow to shrewd man of action to passive observer...