Word: bummers
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Then there was Friday’s game with BU, a bummer of an ending to what was otherwise a very good season...
...Some of these phenomena can easily be explained. Spouses are exposed to the same allergens, which can play a role in triggering asthma attacks, and they tend to have similar diets, which can affect blood pressure and cholesterol levels. And certainly if one partner is depressed, it's a bummer for the other. But ulcers? Doctors know they are caused by a bacterium that's not contagious. "For some of these, there's simply no good explanation," says Julia Hippisley-Cox, senior author of the study. What we do know: if your spouse becomes ill with something, you should...
...dusty street-side caf?s, a smattering of dreadlocked types sport vaguely disappointed looks, as though they've missed the party; they make do with bottles of Beer Chang instead of the opium pipes they had perhaps hoped for. "This is a bit of a bummer, man," moans Robert, a goateed 25-year-old traveler from New Jersey, sporting a knitted cap in Jamaican colors, as he tucks into a plate of oily phad thai. "I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't this," he says, as a bus disgorges a load of German package tourists...
...Then, even as the deals - and with them the buyers - were retreating back into the shadows in November (the wane of the keep-America-rolling sales push was behind Thursday's retail-sales bummer that took October's 6.4 percent spike and turned it into a 3.4 percent drop) carmakers are doing just what we want everybody else to do. They're refilling their lots. Production of automobiles and parts jumped a whopping 6.4 percent in November, taking the edge off the rest of the manufacturing sector's stubborn statistical lethargy...
...ourselves in trouble in the defensive zone,” said Harvard Coach Katie Stone. “We killed the first penalty [to Kat Sweet in the second period] beautifully. It’s a bummer they got that goal on the power play...