Word: casualness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stock closed at $55.25 a share, near its all-time high.) Many of the details of the donation, including its tax benefits to Turner, have yet to be worked out. "I don't even know what the tax breaks are," says Turner. "I haven't considered them." His casual style of giving has not made things easy for his financial advisers. "They haven't really had time to do much more than say, 'Please don't say too much until we can work this out,'" he adds. But even though they may have wanted him to move more cautiously, Turner...
...their kids, like Ben's solemn advice to his son on masturbation ("Don't do it in the shower"). Yet the film's lesson is that, God help us and them, we are our parents. The kids and their folks share all kinds of little sins, from shoplifting to casual sex to peeking in a neighbor's medicine cabinet. Home, the film says, is a school where we mostly learn bad habits...
...found it very informative," said Shlomtzion M. Shaham '01 of her casual dinner conversation with one of the fellows. "I feel like I got the inside scoop on the Kennedy School as well as an outsider's view on America...
...number one singles, she has yet to carve out any specific identity or consistent persona. Her detractors say she is always the same insipid thrush. Her fans proclaim the virtues of "her voice" or "her songs," but rarely champion her. Even her critical reception has veered wildly between casual enthusiasm (1995's multi-Grammy-nominated Daydream) to outright damnation (1991's Emotions is consistently named her worst effort...
...some heated words with them before disappearing through the revolving door. Even at the hotel's two-star restaurant Espadon (French for "swordfish"), the stares of fellow diners made Dodi uncomfortable. The couple were all the more eye-catching in the formal Espadon because they were still wearing the casual clothes--jeans and cowboy boots for him, white slacks and a blazer for her--that would have been suited to Benoit, a bistro. After just 10 minutes, at Dodi's insistence, the couple transferred back to their Imperial Suite to finish their meal...