Word: borrowers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...After God is well-written. Like Ian McEwan, Coupland has a particular talent for capturing ennui. In "Little Creatures," the narrator muses: "The nomadic lifestyle had taken its toll. I had been feeling permanently on the cusp of a flu, feeling at the point where I just wanted to borrow somebody else's coat-borrow somebody else's life-their aura. I seemed to have lost the ability to create any more aura on my own. "But the failure to move beyond this signals Coupland's main weakness as a writer...
Phelan is laid back. "He listens to students as if they were people," says Marshall W. Fordyce '97, mentioning that his tutor is not at all perturbed to be woken up on a Saturday morning by a student looking to borrow a frisbee. "I feel like Jay's really psyched when you share something," says Fordyce...
...Although everyone there knew he would get out at around 6 a.m., they were eager for a sign that Tyson either was back in the fold of promoter Don King or had embraced Islam through the teaching of a local junior-high school teacher named Muhammad Siddeeq. To borrow two Oscar-nominated titles, it was the Lyin' King vs. the Plainfield Redemption. To a man, the journalists decided that if Tyson's limousine turned left out of the prison, he was headed for the mosque in Plainfield. If it turned right, he was on his way to the airport...
Good luck, guys. The Federal Government will have long since spent the proceeds. To redeem the bonds, it will have to raise income taxes sharply or slash spending on things other than pensions severely, or borrow the money from the general public and drive up interest rates, or print money and give a big boost to inflation. Or Social Security taxes will have to be raised heavily yet again. (They have already multiplied 10 times since 1950, from 3% on the first $3,000 of a worker's earnings to 12.4% on the first $61,200 of earnings, with employer...
...positive I liked Gilligan, the Skipper too. "It's better than Next Generation at this point," she continues. Although it is common knowledge that the rings around the Voyager spaceship have the wrong proportion, coming close to 2000 miles in circumference, members are anxiously singing upon a list to borrow the taped episode...