Word: exhaustion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Achievement can make ambition go sour, unless you have a string of hopes you cannot exhaust. Necessarily such a long string of hopes involves other people. Do a good or great deed; sit down and shut up for a year or decade; then do another...
...number of proposed high-tech business ventures have recently gone bust or been postponed. The vexing question: How many droll ways are there to say "trouble on the information superhighway"? Journalists are working hard to exhaust the metaphoric possibilities...
...police] are there to help students so thepresumption is that they would exhaust internalprocedures before relying on criminal standards,"Epps says. "I believe that the police should havefollowed normal practice and called one of thedeans or his house staff to verify that he was astudent in the college...
...everyone was so enamored of it. Sales taxes are regressive: poor people who exhaust their earnings on taxable goods and services will be hit harder than the well off, who spend less of their disposable income. And although the per-student minimum gave it the appearance of egalitarianism, that impulse seems offset by a loophole exempting the state's 40 wealthiest districts from limits on per-pupil spending. Furthermore, sales-tax revenues are notorious for sudden plunges when consumer spending slows down during a recession. Warns Raymond Mackey, a regional director of the American Federation of Teachers, which opposed...
...been smelling exhaust fumes in the last month of the season," he said, "but we still got some good hockey left...