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Then there's the strawberries incident. Eric complains at the breakfast table that Julie crept into his bed at 6:30 one morning and asked if he wanted to go out for strawberries and pancakes. She protests: She didn't say anything about pancakes, and anyway it was an innocent gesture. "He makes it sound like I just climbed all into bed with him and lay there a while and said, 'Let's go get strawberries,' " she says later. "Wrongola...
...ever crept into where 'I'm going to make a decision based on my financial aid package'--and we may get there if costs continue to rise--that's bad," said Khoury...
...despite the lack of danger posed by the December incident, Pottow said "the image of two years ago crept into people's minds...
...aboard a transport in the Palau Islands, waiting for word to go to the Philippines. When I heard of the attack on Pearl Harbor, I felt glad that we had won the first strike. At the same time, worries crept over me like a black cloud: if the U.S. really fought back, Japan might lose...
...showing last summer's rebound to be short-lived. Sales of new homes plunged 12.9% in September despite the lowest mortgage rates in 14 years. Consumer- confidence sagged in October to levels not seen since the height of the Persian Gulf war, and the unemployment rate for the month crept up 0.1%, to 6.8%. Even normally reticent Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan admitted in a speech last week that the economy had recently turned "demonstrably sluggish...