Word: buttes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Brie Kane was only seven when she tried her first cigarette, really just a stale butt she found in her mother's ashtray. It made her sick, but not sick enough to stay away forever. Five years later, she and a friend began secretly sharing Marlboros in the backyard of Brie's home in Olney, Maryland. Now that she is 18, Brie sometimes goes through a pack of Misty Lights a day. Most of the people she knows--her sister, her parents, many of her school friends--are smokers too. "It's just something to do," she explains. Thrusting...
...Private philanthropy will never be able to restore what seems about to be taken away. Some will not notice it; others won't care; given the shortness of American social memory, perhaps the next generation won't know what happened. Partial lobotomies work that way. They favor Beavis and Butt-head. Is that the business of American government...
...spend money to benefit a relative few. "That's taking time and resources that could have been used in a lot of other ways," says Wally Douthwaite, city manager of Des Plaines, Illinois, which spent $2 million to improve sidewalks and curbs. "The ADA is a pain in the butt...
...Butt said there was no way to tell if Harvard would send either a lightweight or heavyweight crew to the regatta next summer. "Our participation depends on winning either the Eastern Sprints Championship or the [Intercollegiate Rowing] Championship," he said...
However, "one always has their hopes," Butt said...