Word: fittingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very mature and focused young man," she says. "Age is not necessarily a criterion for maturity, and Michael's always been able to fit...
...lots to about 100 sprinkled around the U.S. by the turn of the century. What isn't widely appreciated, though, is how he hopes the used-car superstores--each planned to have 1,000 or more cars in stock, and each generating $100 million in annual revenue--will fit into his ultimate scheme. In Wayne's world, you never get attached to cars. You trade them every couple of years until they're scrap--and every stop along the way, he gets a piece of the action...
...doctor visits, a specialist in mental illness summoned by a group of local sympathizers who have petitioned to have her released. He is humane and has vague notions of treating mental illness by questioning and listening. But he is ineffectual, and Marks is suspicious and fearful. She tries to fit fragments of her childhood together but fails, because (in the anguished words that Atwood gives her) her memory is "like a plate that's been broken. There are always some pieces that would seem to belong to another plate altogether, and then there are the empty spaces, where you cannot...
Philosopher Martin Buber writes that there are two types of relationships between human beings, the I-It and the I-You. The I-You relationship entails appreciating another person as a person, with a unique history and voice unable to fit exactly into any labels other than his or her own name. But most of our relationships with others are of an I-It nature, which means that we treat the other person as we would an object or a system, expecting it to serve a certain purpose or perform a certain task (for example, I buy a newspaper from...
...date, JB Oxford has never seen fit to inform its shareholders of the key role Kott plays at the company. Although most of Oxford's customers and stockholders are in the dark, U.S. securities regulators have known for years that Kott is connected to JB Oxford. When regulators have looked into the matter, Oxford has assured them that Kott is nothing more than a consultant...