Word: containment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These tales are the work of a master entering a new period and painting with smaller brush strokes. They are treatises on exile, displacement and orphanhood that also contain meditations on old age, the approach of death, the suddenness of life and the redemptive power of love. In Garcia Marquez pilgrimage across a vast landscape, the destination is for the most part unimportant; what matters is the wondrous journey...
...were unable to demonstrate any effect in tea or colas," Weiss said, adding that such beverages contain significantly less caffeine than coffee...
Pressure to contain costs has led major drug companies Pfizer, American Cyanamid and Upjohn to announce layoffs of 7,000 employees, to take place over three years. Price limits enforced by managed health-care systems have cut into profits for the firms...
Within Cambridge, private offices may be smoking areas if they have independent ventilation systems, and some rooms may be designated as smoking areas. Widener and Lamont libraries, which used to contain designated smoking rooms, no longer have such facilities. Holyoke Center had two smoking rooms, but became smoke-free this past August after employee complaints...
...self-portrait. The narrator drones on about his inane life, his inane friends and their inane lives, and his own pseudo-dys-functional family. The nominal plot revolves around three friends in Palm Springs, California, who spend most of their time swapping wacked-out parables that are supposed to contain within them, somewhere, the meaning of modern life (or lack thereof). The message? You guessed it, Butt-head: it sucks. Everything sucks. "Our Parents Had More," one chapter wails; for good measure, Coupland throws in an appendix of figures illustrating that, in fact, they...