Word: darnes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pentagon brass is now vocally hell-bent for reform. "Perhaps we can't change your attitude," Army Brigadier General Thomas Jones told TIME, "but we can darn well change your conduct." Perhaps not fast enough. The dominant attitude among naval aviators seems to be that it is not possible to be both an officer and a gentleman. "Subjecting these guys to classes in sexual harassment is like telling them not to smoke or drink," explains Charles Moskos, a military sociologist at Northwestern University. "You can't oversocialize them because that might even drive out the best pilots." Some Pentagon officials...
...Dilbert" needs to grow on the reader. upon first introduction to Scott Adams' strip about an inept scientist/bureaucrat and his fiendish canine, one might find the artwork too primitive, and the dog to be just too darn cruel. however, one soon realizes that the artworks is more stylistic than crude-the strip works partly because of its uniquely flat look. In addition, one starts to actually like the megalomaniacal mutt, Dogbert, and his some time sick sense of humor...
...decided to try out, which was pretty darn terrifying. This was the one tough tryout. They taught us a series of steps which we were supposed to remember and actually perform. Like true dancers! With expression! And energy! I figured that if I remembered most of the steps, I would be lucky. Looking back, I realize I used much more concentration for these auditions than for any exam I've taken at this place...
There is nothing new about having babies without getting married. What's new is society's attitude, which has gone from punishing it, to tolerating it, to celebrating it. Ah, Murphy, she is too darn busy and successful to have a baby the old-fashioned way, and anyhow, men are jerks. With her high income, Brown seems a poor vehicle for examining the problem of children born without fathers. Yet she has more in common with the inner-city teenager than we might think. The 14-year-old gets pregnant as a way to give her life meaning. Murphy Brown...
Columbia is no longer a running joke, but a running team and a darn good...