Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while I became an avid spectator but very infrequent participant in intra-mural athletics, showing up for Saturday morning touch-football, staying in for a few downs and then excusing myself to take photos of the team in action. But that didn't last long. For me, sports were dead...
...which have overdecorated many a characterization, here serve to heighten a shrewdly earthbound interpretation. Her Arcati is not dotty or otherworldly. She is a coarse, calculating businesswoman, a vulgar social climber, a tiresome, self-absorbed frump who just happens to be a medium with the gift of raising the dead. Her manner is so much the grasping fraud that the audience is stunned when she delivers the goods. Indeed, she is stunned herself: there are few funnier sights than Page striding across the stage in pursuit of a ghost whose presence she senses but cannot see, snuffling at the wraith...
...jobs are not necessarily dead-end ones, since each McDonald's outlet offers a career path of salaried jobs in which store managers typically earn $25,000 and junior managers $12,000 to $17,000. And managers can aspire to opening their own McDonald's, since most of the chain's restaurants are started by individual entrepreneurs. The initial investment in a franchise outlet is typically $325,000, but the return can be high. Other ambitious store managers can move up to Illinois headquarters, where almost 40% of executives got their start flipping hamburgers. The company employs relatively few M.B.A.s...
...school has no political orthodoxy whichmust be followed. If we did we'd be dead in thewater because no one would come," Bernstein said
...year-old girlfriend. After six hours of negotiations, the two surrendered. Though many questioned the man's claim that he was a leftist guerrilla, the incident illustrated the capital's deteriorating security. Hours before the hostage taking, an attack by real guerrillas had left two San Salvador police officers dead...