Word: blinks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Would I do anything to become a mother? Yes. But to me that was a different question. Thus my foray into fertility treatment lasted barely eight months--an eye blink compared with the brave women who soldier on year after year. I found every moment of that battle against biology a nightmare. The first salvo was Clomid, prescribed by a gynecologist who, upon learning that I was 37 and Joe 50, warned, "Given your ages, you should proceed as quickly as possible." Eager to hasten a pregnancy that already felt long overdue, I swallowed the pills. But rather than stimulating...
...heart ? and its promise to end sanctions once Iraq?s weapons of mass destruction are neutralized. Saddam?s happy because he gets to look heroic to the Iraqi people, and didn?t have to deal directly with the hated Americans. Clinton should be happy, because he didn?t blink and the return of inspectors is unconditional. Who?d have thought ? a rational solution in the Gulf that doesn?t involve cruise missiles...
...Besides, Calley argues, current management deserves credit for what it has done right: savvy marketing and bold scheduling. "While we are living off the past at the moment, we are going to do more than a billion dollars this year, and that's not coasting." The studio didn't blink when Warner and Disney warned that Jerry Maguire would get steamrollered if it opened at Christmas, in competition with their respective offerings, Mars Attacks and The Preacher's Wife. According to Sony executives, Warner chiefs Bob Daly and Terry Semel even tried to enlist Tom Cruise to delay Jerry Maguire...
...rule is, I eat whatever everybody else eats--this is part of our research methodologies, the way we have to act," he says. "When I do my research I eat whatever is put in front of me. I never question; I never stop; I never blink. My attitude is that this is what my hosts are giving me and I have to respect them, and I've eaten some very strange things...
...rise with the sun, part of the song that Walt Whitman used to "hear America singing...those of mechanics...blithe and strong." The steam trains came around the bend behind the houses and doubled their strokes up the slope, and the sound shook the windowpanes. But in a blink they were extinct. Our creamery went silent. So did the big diesel electric generators that pumped through the cold winter nights. Maybe it all is good. But the memories are so intimate and gratifying, of things done well and done by people we knew and never done in excess...