Word: dish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nothing else, I can take solace in the few beneficial effects The Ad has had on my life. I no longer have to introduce myself to people around Harvard. At least my peers will remember me for something. And most important: nobody can ever tell me that I can dish it out but can't take...
...genies unleashed by modern science, none has inspired more anxiety than the power of the atom. As if that were not disquieting enough, the industry has long been plagued by what Victor Gilinsky, an outspoken former member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, has called "too many deep-dish thinkers," who believed the future belonged to nuclear power and often overstated its potential. "It became a way of life instead of just a practical way of generating electricity," Gilinsky says. "The whole thing just became too ponderous, instead of practical and sensible...
...just a bother in theory. The best example of this is the patient who paces or talks to the television set, or who does a task over and over again. Maybe they'll keep folding or unfolding laundry, or maybe they like to wash the same dish 20 or 30 times. Family members tell me it's driving them crazy. My answer is, What are you going to have this person do instead of folding and unfolding laundry? Are they going to read Plato? Are they going to go to a play by Shakespeare? What's the big deal...
Revenge is a dish best served cold -- and on White House china. While drafting its recently submitted budget, the Bush Administration secretly proposed that the IRS target its stringent audits not on wealthy individuals and companies (whose lawyers can often stall a case for years) but on middle- and lower- income taxpayers (who generally pay up without protest and provide immediate revenue). IRS Commissioner Fred Goldberg rejected the cash-now plan, calling it "no-good tax policy." But his request to spend an additional $76 million to catch rich tax cheats was pared down to a puny $6 million. Could...
...expensive -- staples of the past. Put plainly, the croissant is out and the doughnut is in, and the same goes for restaurant fare. At some haughty spots like New York City's four-star Le Cirque, the humble turnip is increasingly turning up in soups and as a side dish. Addio, radicchio...