Word: fittingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When they are both on the road separately, which is most of the time, they check in with each other's schedulers. "Did you give Elizabeth time to eat?" he will ask. "Make sure you fit in some time for Bob to rest," she will say. He gets her itinerary faxed to him daily, including the type of plane she is flying in. He insists that she always fly with two pilots and avoid helicopters. When she slipped and fell in January, he sent her roses and ordered her a pepperoni pizza. For her part, she tries to protect...
...didn't take an English professor to spot the irony. Apple Computer, facing thousands of layoffs, dwindling market share and potential extinction, launched its first big ad campaign of 1996 in partnership with Mission: Impossible. Surely the phrase fit the Cupertino, California, computer maker's scenario every bit as well as the Tom Cruise movie. Why not, one PC magazine suggested, also sponsor a remake of Raise the Titanic...
...sits on the board of advisers for his soon-to-open healing center in La Jolla, California. Other devotees include Michael Jackson, Donna Karan and Michael Milken. Chopra remains unvalidated by the gatekeepers of higher culture: Bill Moyers has yet to interview him. Nevertheless, PBS stations have not seen fit to abjure the millions they make by playing Chopra's vastly popular lecture tapes during their subscription drives. Dozens of CEOs swear by him publicly, and his lawyer maintains that "it is mind blowing, the list of [Chopra intimates] at the highest levels of government in a variety of countries...
Senior-citizen status may have been her chronological due, but it never seemed to fit the refined beat of her music, which--young fans in Italy to the contrary--was less straight jazz than pop on an elegant upswing. There is no doubt that Billie Holiday had a darker genius. Lady Day's jazz was steeped in the magic and mystery and doom of the blues. Ella's art had a sunnier side, a more adaptive quality that let her be, if not an absolute original, a peerless interpreter, a superb vocal actress who could snuggle into Porter's playfulness...
...person who can solve these problems. Instead I hope to recruit you to my passions: that our institutions must be fit to nurture talent., that new talent is essential to advance science and that science, a source of beauty and delight, is also our best hope of fighting the threats of Alzheimer's and many other diseases...