Word: fittingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Everything works out too nicely. Ata just decides, in a fit of neurotic passion, that she wants to defy her husband in some way (i.e., by becoming a criminal), then regains her self-confidence by going off with a woman she barely knows. In a bizarre Flannery O'Connor reference, Bo attempts to convince Ata by telling her, "A good shimmy is hard to find." Ata thinks she's found a life that will finally make her happy...
Powell says the project "fit with my priorities," but he didn't want to be involved in a fuzzy-headed launch of a feel-good balloon that would simply drift away. "I said no to offers to chair studies, to sit on boards to examine the cities. I wanted concrete goals, a focus on kids, deliverable results and a way to continue beyond the summit." Convinced that Chambers and the other organizers wanted those things as well, he agreed to join Clinton and Bush at a White House ceremony on Jan. 24 to announce the summit...
...Street estimate that the company's net income, which more than doubled, to $169.6 million, last year, could reach $445 million in 1997. Silverman isn't always golden. HFS last year licensed its Century 21 trademark to Amre Inc., a cash-strapped home-remodeling company that Silverman thought would fit nicely with his real estate operations. But Amre went belly up at a cost to HFS of $14 million in write-offs...
Having a hard time dealing with academics? Classes can be pretty demanding, and often consume lots of time. However, Harvard students seem to always manage to fit a little more into their schedules. They participate in extracurriculars, perform community service and sometimes even run their own businesses...
...whose penis was accidentally severed by a surgeon when he was an infant and who was raised as a girl cannot be held up as the iconographic case that defines the natural pull of human sexual identity. In John's case, des pite extensive surgery to fit him with female genitalia and long socialization by a family that raised him as a girl, he always felt and acted like a boy. When he finally learned the truth about his identity in his teens, he was overjoyed, sought ou t reverse surgery and is now happily married. TIME's Christine Gorman...