Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bravo, Miss Manners! For your good example and constant nagging, you deserve our thanks, perhaps even...
...well-is that "we are all born ignorant and oafish," and it is the duty of all parents to teach their younger selves how to behave properly. The only way to do so, she says, is by providing a good example plus tireless nagging. "It takes 18 years of constant work to get [a child] into presentable enough shape so that a college will take him or her off your hands," she announces. The child must be taught not just to say thank you, not even just to treat other people with consideration, but to see that the world...
...advisers had the chore of devising a strategy that would build on his earlier success. They felt that he could be tougher on Reagan in the foreign policy debate, where the Democrats claimed to have a stronger case. They urged Mondale to be a prosecutor, applying constant pressure...
...valued he was rewarded with champagne and a free one-hour session on Valentine's Day. Barrows' notation alongside his name: "This is good business relations. Besides, we love him so much." One young Texas executive had noted as his preference: "Two tall busty blonds-with constant interaction between the girls." There were reports that the CIA had asked for the names of some foreign clients for possible use as informants. Officials said that others might be called as witnesses in the case...
...children who moved to a new school probably experience an "anticipatory anxiety" associated with the change, while the children left behind may not have been affected until they were struck by changes in the classroom group and constant reminders at school of departed friends...