Word: existance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even if kids don't watch certain television shows, they know the programs exist and are bedazzled by the forbidden. From schoolyard word of mouth, eight-year-old Jeff in Chicago has heard all about the foul-mouthed kids in the raunchily plotted South Park, and even though he has never seen the show, he can describe certain episodes in detail. (He is also familiar with the AIDS theme of the musical Rent because he's heard the CD over and over.) Argentina, 16, in Detroit, says, "TV makes sex look like this big game." Her friend Michael, 17, adds...
...which my wife's exam would differ from mine would be at the cardiac-function lab. While she would have been given an electrocardiogram at rest, a stress test might have been ruled out. EKGs of women on the treadmill are notoriously inaccurate, frequently showing abnormalities where none exist. Instead, women are carefully questioned about family history that might reveal a disposition toward heart disease. Only if heart disease runs in the family would the clinic be tempted to run a stress test...
There is a lot in life that's perfect, after all. Perfect pitch. Toss enough perfect pitches, and you have a perfect game. Ask the Yankees' David Wells. What should one strive for if not perfect justice, honor, truth? These things do not exist except in perfect states. While I'm at it, add perfect love and happiness. Why should you not have a perfect marriage? You yourself are heaven...
...Hirsch leaves behind while building his business--the problem of unsolicited commercial e-mail, most commonly known as spam. Right now I have more than 1,000 spam messages in my e-mail In-box folder. Those of us who detest spam support the right of porn websites to exist. We do not support the indiscriminate flooding of our e-mail In boxes with unsolicited commercial e-mail. BRUCE MILLER, President Telecommunications Users Group Seattle...
Critics also say that a formal document should exist--none does now--that would explain how much influence the ad hoc is supposed to have...