Word: diem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...face it--you've got four years to make the most of Harvard. We say carpe diem...
...start of Dead Poet's Society, a class of prep school boys, who have spent their lives conforming to their parents desires, are presented by their new English teacher with the lesson "Carpe Diem...
Those rules tolerate large swaths of gray and encourage euphemism. Bribes, graft and expenses-paid vacations are never talked about on Capitol Hill. Honorariums, campaign contributions and per diem travel reimbursements are. Cash gifts, even of $100,000, are not automatically illegal, as long as they are disclosed and the giver has no direct interest in legislation. Neither is free use of posh apartments and expensive cars...
...same salary and benefits, Betty Wright went to work for Mallightco, an investment company that the Wrights had formed with Mallick and his wife. Betty Wright also borrowed $75,000 from Mallightco. After she stopped working for the company in 1984, the Wrights paid $21.67 per diem for the apartment when they used it and then purchased it in 1988 for $58,500. Eventually they bought the Cadillac...
...Marvell, he is the perfect hero for yuppies with a fondness for culture. In his time, Marvell was an advocate of the carpe diem philosophy, known for his lines to his coy mistress, "Had we but world enough, and time,/ This coyness. lady, were no crime." Here Marvell not only exhorts the reader to seize the day but also to indulge his desires...