Word: commit
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These bigger numbers remain relevant because no future Congress wants to commit political suicide by allowing this tax cut to expire. Simply stated, all of Washington knows many of these provisions are in effect permanent. The Big Lie is that it costs only $1.35 trillion. Since the real cost is much greater, future Administrations--and Congresses--will have to deal with a political nightmare: the real possibility of deficit spending a decade from now as baby boomers begin to retire en masse and sap the Social Security and Medicare systems...
...lake water and "lily-pad soup." But even JoAnn knew to seek out Coffelt on that May 12. After all, he is the county coroner and funeral director. All she did was drop the body off. Coffelt waited nearly two more weeks before he got the widow to commit to any kind of burial arrangement. He wasn't allowed to go by the house to consult "because of the dogs"--more than two dozen mean and hungry ones (they lived on whatever leftovers they could find)--that prowled the property and kept visitors, all unwanted, out. Says Coffelt: "The lady...
...Since I've been sober I've had some really hard times," he says. "When I first started doing the steps, that was the first time I thought I wanted to commit suicide. I had to deal with shit instead of drinking to make it go away...
...broke down. I was bawling. I started out in an [AA] meeting where the average age was in the 40s. I didn't want to relate to these people talking about losing their families, their jobs, their houses. I was 17. But when they started talking about trying to commit suicide, drinking on a daily basis, blacking out, I had to relate to those things. I still go to as many meetings as I did when I first got sober - around five a week...
...which are becoming more widespread than ever. The season finale of ABC's eminently forgettable Two Guys and a Girl allowed viewers to vote online among four possible endings. (I searched in vain for the options to cancel the series, burn all videotapes or watch Disney honcho Michael Eisner commit ritual suicide in shame for having aired it.) Meanwhile, the creator of Dharma and Greg is developing a sitcom for Fox called Nathan's Choice, in which the hero faces a dilemma halfway through the show, the audience votes on his "choice" online and the second half of the show...