Word: breath
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...date, if you hold your flowers behind your back and then take them out when she opens the door, she recognizes this as the international sign for "Hey, I remembered flowers, but I'm still a dork." If you arrive 10 minutes late and out of breath, this is the International Sign for "I live in the Quad, and you live in the River. On a Saturday night I might as well try to teleport as find a shuttle." If you arrive and she says, "I just have to finish some e-mail before we go," this is the verbal...
...certain passage may look studious, but it's actually the International Sign for "I have less than zero clue, in fact negative clue, what everyone is talking about and I am just buying time. Is this the right room?" Clasping your hands around your neck and gasping for breath in section still means "I am choking...
...different on a daily basis. Whether it's the latest dish on Monica's fetishes or a more sober update on Saddam's antics, the events and personalities amount to a collection of on-going stories, almost a serial novel, which one can follow with baited breath anew each morning. The missing element, however, is completion, an elusive goal at best, but a deep human longing nonetheless...
Jackson described the shared characteristics of the dream as equal treatment, opportunity, access to social goods and entitlement to those goods. All of these requirements, Jackson maintains, will build a "big tent" open to all "those who yearn to breath...
...past is not prologue: the Street pays for future earnings, and in the same breath that Intel used to pronounce last quarter's tidy profits, it also warned of some tough months ahead. The stock got pounded. Ditto Kodak a few days later, except that its profits weren't so tidy. I'm expecting a batch of replays, and if it happens that way, analysts will be letting air out of their earnings estimates for months. So when stocks fall, don't bother looking for an explanation. It's earnings angst, and Wall Street is running out of tranquilizers...