Word: considerate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dog Days centers around Reilly, a twenty-something software developer living in the North End of Boston with his roommate, a fellow computer nerd. Reilly's character is completely underdeveloped, and the reader never understands why he makes his bad decisions without ever questioning them himself. For example, for the...
One more minor yet disturbing point about the novel is the scattering of scatological jokes and references to Coco the dog's bowel movements. In one revolting scene, Coco suffers heat stroke and Reilly must administer a cold-water enema to the dog not once but three times. We are...
But when the number of shared features reaches critical mass, scientists have to consider a direct evolutionary relationship. A dinosaur with feathers would clearly tip the scales: they're by far birds' most characteristic feature, and they had to evolve from somewhere. The skeptics have always contended that birds' ancestors...
Consider a husband and wife, each of whom earns $30,000 a year. This year the couple would owe $7,795 in federal income tax. They would owe $880 less if they divorced but stayed together. That's because married people get a smaller standard deduction: $7,100 per couple...
She began with, "You're not the person I sent away to school." And then you can be sure she went though the mandatory standards of: "What differentiates you from an animal?"; "Don't you ever consider the consequences?"; "How can you be so stupid?" Disappointment and disapproval were thick...