Word: drain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this dread that all our financial success is going to go down the drain," Chun said...
...earliest research projects, Charlie showed no signs of having considered my synopsis in his interviews--whole hours down the drain. More recently, as I've patterned my reports on those of the permanent research "staff" (an assiduous and humorous pair of recent graduates from Fordham and Amherst), I've found questions quite similar to those I've proposed creeping into the interviews. Somehow, that's very rewarding. Still, each day I am struck by the seemingly absurd variety of my assignments--one minute I'll be asked to elucidate the political philosophy of Michael J. Sandel, the next minute...
...Quasimodo's, seems grafted onto an essentially solemn story, it still has an infectious giddiness. A sign over a manhole reads mon sewer; one song rhymes Quasi with "was he" and "bourgeoisie." At times the cathedral is a theme park, with cute characters, dark scary spots and a drain pipe that Quasi uses as a giant water slide. The movie may not soar like Aladdin or roar like The Lion King, and it demands plenty of parental guidance; but it fulfills the Disney animators' dream. From a blank sheet of paper, monsters and magic emerge...
...position. Senator Don Nickles of Oklahoma, who might forego the opportunity to be majority leader and seek the position of majority whip and Senator Pete Domenici of New Mexico, a longtime friend of Bob Dole. "If either of these men decides to declare their candidacy, they will probably drain votes away from the conservative Lott," says Carney. -->