Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...credulous simps. His first two tactics for system-beating, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocations, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there are a few and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...
...convicted, the defense's plan is to wait for the sentencing phase of the trial and raise his mental condition as a mitigating factor. His brother and mother will then take the stand and tell how his aberrant behavior goes all the way back to childhood. With a little bit of luck, the jury may show some mercy. Kaczynski will probably not like all the talk about mental illness then any more than he does now. But at that point his lawyers will be engaged in a last-ditch effort to save his life. Their only hope is that...
...Sundeck restaurant on top of the mountain in Aspen, fame's playground, waiting for the slopes to clear at the end of the day so they could have the hill to themselves to continue the annual family downhill football game. The ski patrol was not keen on this bit of Kennedy showboating and had warned that it was a dangerous sport--skiing fast and close, without poles, tossing a football through improvised goals as the sun sank and the shadows stretched and the slopes turned gray and icy. Aspen has had less snow than normal this year, 24 inches...
...course, the most advanced turbulence-warning system on earth will not do a bit of good unless passengers heed those warnings by using the low-tech but highly effective anti-turbulence device known as the seat belt. Since 1980, only two serious turbulence-related injuries were suffered by properly strapped-in passengers. And although United says the FASTEN SEAT BELT sign was on last week, many passengers were, as passengers often do, simply ignoring...
...yeah, definitely. But it's nice because it didn't translate into millions of sales, it was just sort of like robbing the base a little bit in a very nice, manageable...