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...Pausing, Kirshner quickly argues, "Astrologers depend on people going, 'Oh yeah, that...

Author: By Alicia A. Carrasquillo, Sarah L. Gore, and Samuel Hornblower, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Astrology with Prof. Kirshner | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...think it would have to depend on the candidate," he says. "If it was a candidate that I believed in, I would make the time...

Author: By Jordana R. Lewis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Busy Professors Reach For Their Pocketbooks | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...They're very cleverly written, so that almost anybody would say, 'Oh yeah! That's me!' It's the self-identification they depend on. But if you clipped off all the dates and shuffled them all around and handed them out, people would again say, 'Oh yeah! That...

Author: By Alicia A. Carrasquillo, Sarah L. Gore, and Samuel Hornblower, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Astrology with Prof. Kirshner | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

Like more and more American workers, Martin has come to depend on his employer to keep him healthy and, to some degree, sane. On days when he doesn't bicycle to work, the father of two jogs on a treadmill in the HP fitness center. He studies meditation and stress reduction, gets flu shots, has his blood and body fat checked, and gets advice from company crisis counselors--all at work and for little or no cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Healthy Profits | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...irregulars are vulnerable too because they depend on fallible memory. If a verb declines in popularity, speakers may not hear its irregular form often enough to fix it securely in memory. They fall back on -ed, changing the language for following generations. That is why forms from Chaucer's time such as chide-chid and writhe-wrothe turned into chided and writhed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Horton Heared a Who! | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

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