Word: crisp
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is something to be said for the feel of crisp bills or clinking change in the palm of your hand, but credit cards and automatic teller machines (ATMs) are taking over the market for money. The machines have popped up on every street corner, and you can pay with plastic just about everywhere-even supermarkets happily accept ATM cards these days. Limits on credit availability and allowable amounts for purchases have also begun to varnish...
...Mleczko and Leitzes were unstoppable; each scored two goals in the middle period. Mleczko and Leitzes's were the only four Harvard shots in the second, but they all lit the lamp, courtesy of some Providence defensive lapses and crisp Harvard passing and skating...
Even more impressive than PInsky's infusion of life into the translation is that fact that he is also faithful to the Inferno's original interlocking rhyme scheme, called terza rima (aba, bcb, cdc, etc). Pinsky avoids he possible pitfalls of this demanding form and triumphs with crisp and inventive rhymes that not only meet the demands of form but also bring the poem to life...
...game started off well. Harvard's passes were crisp, and the offensive plays were largely successful...
...Pentagon waste and trumped-up test data. But now some "positive" news: the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization at the Pentagon reports that the $30 billion the U.S. has already invested in Star Wars has generated a new type of plastic that will keep home- delivered pizzas "hot and crisp for two hours." Americans will eat roughly 8 billion pizzas this year.* That works...