Word: figuredness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Two weeks ago, the Administration finally told McCain the price of the President's support: $1.10. That is, the Administration's budget figured on a deal in which the cost of a pack of cigarettes would rise $1.10 over five years. Some G.O.P. lawmakers gagged at the cost--privately they...
Let's take stock for a moment. To name just a few random things we did in a hundred years: we split the atom, invented jazz and rock, launched airplanes and landed on the moon, concocted a general theory of relativity, devised the transistor and figured out how to etch...
The US government was funding people to learn these languages. And I was broke: I was a sophomore and I'd used up all my money earned from sacking groceries in high school. I'd used up all my money and I had to find a job or some way...
I grew up in a very small, tiny little Iowa town, the town had a population of about 400. My high school graduating class had 19 people and that was the biggest class that school had ever had. My dad was a school principal and coach, and my mom was...
The sports heritage is genuine. Knight launched the company in 1964 with Bill Bowerman, his former track coach at the University of Oregon. Knight's business plan, hatched as an M.B.A. project at Stanford, was straightforward. He figured that by importing shoes made in Japan, where labor was then cheap...