Word: discussing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Instead of "downsizing", these companies visit our campus to look for new people among us to hire. At dinner tables, my friends and I discuss careers and aspirations, not just temporary jobs to subsidize our families. At an age when we are supposed to be dreaming up big plans for our futures, our circumstances are allowing us to do exactly that...
...this heady environment, Tyler Emerson stands out. Tyler's 12-year-old mind runs deep, notes one of his sixth-grade teachers, Lura Atherly. "He questions things, but not with surface questions. He asks extending questions: Why? What if...?" When the class studied the Russian Revolution, Tyler wanted to discuss what would have happened if the Romanovs had escaped: What if they had come back after the fall of communism? His writing also reflects an uncommon mix of the imaginative and the methodical. He prefers to write on deadline: "It feels like a deadline unlocks a chest where...
...Hill, are passionate readers. They began reading to him nightly when he was a baby. By 15 months, he was turning the pages of his Dr. Seuss books, already aware that something wonderful was going on. Tyler's parents still read to his brother John, 8. With Ty, they discuss the Tolkien and Asimov books that are his current favorites. "This house could collapse from the weight of books," says his dad Jeff...
...snapping locker-room pal. In his rhetoric the American People, for their part, serve alternately as a goad, an inspiration, a shaming device and, of course, an excuse. "I need to go back to work for the American People," he notoriously said on Jan. 26, and then refused to discuss the Lewinsky scandal for almost seven months. Too busy. The American People's work really fills...
...committee's staff members will function as quietly as possible as they prepare for postelection hearings. Witness lists will be drawn up, depositions taken and decisions made about whether to pursue calls from people volunteering information about Clinton. Next week White House lawyers will meet with committee counterparts to discuss what a Clinton aide called "mechanics." By that he means issues like settling which facts in the Starr report, if any, the White House is willing to stipulate as true in the interest of efficiency. But don't expect much progress. Sniffed a senior adviser to the President...