Word: breads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the several hundred people who are expected to attend some part of the marathon concert will not be charged admission, concert organizers will ask for donations for Project Bread and the Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless, according to Clark M. Pratt '87, supervisor of the University Lutheran Homeless Shelter...
...recouped when a project is aborted), tin cupping (when one corporate division begs for management support) and deadheading (bypassing a senior employee in order to promote someone more junior). Computer aficionados complain about vaporware (software that has been announced but not yet produced). Advertisers refer disparagingly to white bread (consumers with bland tastes). And all business executives try to avoid a Mickey Mouse. That's a major effort that produces paltry results...
...young woman featured in the book wrote an essay comparing herself to a recipe for cranberry bread. Another applicant imagined that even the most famous writers had difficulty describing themselves in their college essays...
...Where's it at?" it is as if a counterfeit dollar enters the nation's money supply. Gradually, people lose faith in the currency until it is as worthless as the German mark in the '30s. When it takes a wheelbarrow full of bills to buy a loaf of bread, the monetary system is no longer useful as a standard for trade. When "don't" follows "he" and "doesn't" follows "I," language is no longer a useful standard for communication...
Sitting in their stone-walled shelters, the guerrillas joke with insouciance while sipping tea and munching on bread and grapes. When an enemy shell goes spectacularly awry, they exchange gibes about the enemy's marksmanship. Near misses evoke nods and grins of appreciation...