Word: breaths
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...there was something else much more important that they never heard of either: Charlie got better. He got stronger, his breath came back, his face pinked up, he gained weight. The big blotches on his x-rays disappeared. It was miraculous. This was about ten years ago. I last saw him about a year ago. He had some nerve damage (probably from the drugs) but he just bought a new boat and was getting along fine...
...tangible and painful consequences” for Iran and lobbied the use of “all available means to stop the threat of the Iranian regime.” Last week, President Bush reaffirmed his disastrous doctrine of pre-emptive war in practically the same breath as his condemnation of Iran. Against this war-mongering backdrop, last Saturday a few Harvard students organized an “Iran Freedom Concert” with the supposed aim of promoting awareness about human rights violations in Iran. According to the concert’s website, the organizers took no stance...
...When my boss is here, there's a tension that permeates everything. Your breath catches in your chest and just sticks there for the entire day-no heartburn or reflux medicine can remove the feeling! The man never recognizes anyone for a job well done, yet he never yells at anyone for screwing up. He rarely ever cracks a smile or laughs, but he doesn't yell. It's almost like he's a robot, an automaton that lives to sit in his office and go over minute details of things people will never see or read...
...economy in unmanageable directions that they moved too soon to reduce spending and raise interest rates. That sent the economy into a still deeper deflationary dive. Then the government threw all caution to the wind, and began to spend, spend, spend to create demand. Decision makers held their breath and waited. For an excruciatingly long period of time, nothing positive seemed to happen. Then imperceptibility, in early 2003, the rate of decline began to slow, then to steady, before fragile signs of reversal started to appear...
...economy in unmanageable directions that they moved too soon to reduce spending and raise interest rates. That sent the economy into a still deeper deflationary dive. Then the government threw all caution to the wind, and began to spend, spend, spend to create demand. Decision makers held their breath and waited. For an excruciatingly long period of time, nothing positive seemed to happen. Then imperceptibility, in early 2003, the rate of decline began to slow, then to steady, before fragile signs of reversal started to appear...