Word: existing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hours of the third Monday in February are a time for us to recall the greatness of two men who have extraordinarily affected our lives. Without Washington, who withstood external pressures, and Lincoln, who kept our nation together despite internal chaos, the United States might well not exist...
...racism? Not nearly enough, as I see it. Because even though I may not know the smart of the whip any more than a white person, I do know the slap in the face of being reminded that a black person in this country can never just exist as a person: his humanity is always conditioned by race in exactly the same way that the humanity of a slave was denied by race. At least since the age of seven, my experiences with racism, as trifling as they may be, have kept me from passing a day without thinking consciously...
...might be discovered that the Office of Career Services is filled with asbestos, leaving those students who spend their days racing for the perfect job looking for disability insurance instead. Such afflictions are products of our nightmares; they are too clearly made up to punish us to actually exist. Yet although it fits all the criteria for being the worst possible malady for a student, the shocking fact is that RSI real...
Despite its continued popularity and success, however, Social Security currently faces two challenges. The first is a long-term financing imbalance; the second, precipitated by the first, is a crisis of confidence whereby more young Americans believe in UFOs than believe that Social Security will exist when they retire...
...other class of people we know-but-don't-know are the 3-D people. These people exist in living color, but we never see their names mentioned anywhere. That's because they don't have names. They simply show up everywhere we go, but for whatever reason we have never bothered to find out who they are. Unlike the 2-D people, who are more or less public property, each of us has a personalized set of 3-D people who are clearly getting paid to follow us around. They show up in our course sections, in group tutorials...