Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some reason, I haven't been able to pick up a single book for my new classes this semester. They have been sitting on my bookshelves looking at me disapprovingly and having contests to see which one can collect the most dust. Instead of studying, I've been contemplating the sexiness of Billy Joe, the lead singer of Green Day (What a babe!), and waiting for "When I Come Around" to get played on WFNX. I dunno, I just can't seem to shake the reading period slacker mentality. Besides listen to the radio...
...number of departments collect and send CUE scores for junior faculty when they're being considered for tenure," Buell says. "That's part of the evidence of teaching performance...
...play spy, whose find did not add much to what the Pentagon already knew about the missing. Of the 2,211 men listed as MIA, the U.S. has now firmly concluded that 2,156 are dead. Schlatter says the remaining 55 will likely be ruled dead as investigators collect more evidence. Even if that happens, a few Americans will remain unsatisfied. ``For some POW families, this issue will never be laid to rest,'' says Frances Zwenig, vice president of the U.S.-Vietnam Trade Council. Even access to all of Hanoi's archives is not likely to change that...
COLLECTORS ARE CRAZY, A LITTLE or a lot -- gently mad or glittery-eyed gaga. Nuttiness is the only sane explanation for wanting to possess every matchbook cover or baseball card ever printed or for paying $47 million to own a Van Gogh. Or trying to collect every fact in the space-time continuum by memorizing an encyclopedia or deciding to experience one of every kind of lover...
...arranged the Nov. 28 chat. Indeed it might have been, except that a few weeks later, Murdoch's publishing house HarperCollins agreed to give Gingrich a $4.5 million advance to write two books. In the ensuing controversy, Gingrich decided to give up all but $1 of the advance and collect only royalties. However, the disclosure last week that Murdoch and Gingrich had met in person reignited criticism of the Speaker's book deal, for which he could still earn millions of dollars while in office...