Word: endless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stay in the capital city, we watched agents for the Preservation of Virtue and Elimination of Vice enforce an endless list of edicts and absurdities at gunpoint, with rifle butts, with the backs of their hands. Women are forbidden to wear high heels or white socks because they are considered a sexual lure. Music is banned: cassettes are often snatched out of cars, the tapes stripped out and hung on signs as a warning. Kites may not be flown, and most forms of public entertainment, like movies, are not permitted...
...your mate suddenly more endearing?) And the moral indignation hurled at a spouse--over his or her coldness, rudeness, sloppiness, whatever--may feel high-minded but is often crassly self-serving. The emotional world of the family, Bowen believed, can be a jungle of realpolitik and a source of endless turbulence...
...slightly slumped, over the podium and apologized to the audience for his lack of energy. The firebrand of many a TV interview lamented the day's six previous publicity-engagements and mumbled, "Live television is torture...it's demeaning." The publicity-hungry Oliver Stone of Natural Born Killers, of endless controversy and extremist rhetoric, was clearly nowhere to be found...
...recognize their own emotions, empathize with peers and deal with crises--their "emotional quotient," or EQ--influences their life chances as much as native intelligence. The book, now a paperback best seller, has had a catalytic effect. Rutgers psychologist Maurice Elias, a pioneer in emotional education, says he fields endless calls, E-mails and faxes from interested educators. "There is credibility now given to taking time in the school day to carry out this kind of work," he says...
...around and above and below her to prevent people from drilling into her room and poisoning her, Mission: Impossible-style (no), and that she has a computer chip implanted in her neck to track her. (And this where 50% of students had a 4.0 in high school.) There was endless speculation, and at least one betting pool, about where she would live. But the thing that obsessed Stanford most was the Secret Service men, who, as they did for Jack Ford, will dress like students and live in the dorm. Will they listen in while Chelsea hooks up? If they...