Word: boning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...devoid of irony and flush with optimism and unabashed emotion. "Apathy is boring," says Cole. "It takes real courage to have hope." This is music that wants to feel, no matter how much it hurts. Says Jewel: "People are hungry for emotiveness. They want bare honesty, emotional blood-and-bone honesty...
...same message: do whatever the job requires, but don't make a big deal of doing something you're being overpaid for. This was an attitude many great male stars of Hollywood's classic age mastered. But Mitchum, achieving prominence late in that period (with his war- and bone-weary platoon leader in 1945's The Story of G.I. Joe), took self-deprecation to new levels...
Students sit at ancient wooden tables like in an army barracks. At the front of the hall, elevated one foot above the rest of us, is the High Table; large silver candelabras, fine bone china and a staff of three to serve about six dons. When all students are seated, a secret door opens on stage and the High Table diners, with glasses of sherry in hand and long black academic gowns fluttering behind them take their seats...
...before he submitted the bid, Wynne says, he got cold feet and slashed an additional 50[cents] a ton off the delivered price: it came in at $24.85, 19% lower than last year's. Wynne says he trimmed the bid to the bone because the jobs of Mettiki's 260 non-union workers, 30% of whom live in West Virginia, were every bit as much at stake as the jobs across the Potomac River. The men who actually work at the face of the mine (as opposed to some maintenance and support workers on the "outside") receive wages and benefits...
...acknowledged as much in 1990, and since then the U.S. has paid $67 million to 1,338 of the "downwinders," many of whom live in Utah and believe their exposure to radiation caused leukemia and other ailments. An apparent victim was former Utah Governor Scott Matheson, who died of bone-marrow cancer a week before Bush's admission...