Word: flaking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First, the people could flake (or come super late, which is equally annoying). This prevents those waiting from going anywhere else if the party is dead. The party is also less enjoyable because while you wait, you look around, thinking, "Did I just miss them? Could they be on the other side of that pillar/tall man/other largely immovable and wholly non-transparent object...
First, the people could flake (or come super late, which is equally annoying). This prevents those waiting from going anywhere else if the party is dead. The party is also less enjoyable because while you wait, you look around, thinking, "Did I just miss them? Could they be on the other side of that pillar/tall man/other largely immovable and wholly non-transparent object...
...then our relationship soured. The "chrome" crowning the pen cap began to peel, revealing the shoddy, plasticky truth-she had been sheathed in a pseudo-chrome laminate. She was living a lie, and I wanted nothing to do with that $27 flake. Back to the store she went...
...exercise than achievable public policy. Factor in the fierce opposition of teachers' unions, which view vouchers as a threat to jobs, and they seemed like a very long shot. But lately vouchers have been picking up steam. Democrats like Milwaukee Mayor John Norquist and former New York Congressman Floyd Flake have joined Republicans in advocating school choice. And last week venture capitalist Ted Forstmann and Wal-Mart heir John Walton announced the Children's Scholarship Fund, a $200 million initiative to provide scholarships for 50,000 children to attend private or parochial schools...
...most part, the rest of the old-time liberal coalition is not budging. Last month the N.A.A.C.P. joined with the liberal People for the American Way to organize an antivoucher demonstration in Philadelphia. "The N.A.A.C.P. is out of touch," says Congressman Floyd Flake, a New York Democrat. "The next wave of the civil rights movement will be demand for choice in schools." All the same, when the House voted earlier this month to approve a Republican proposal for a $7 million voucher plan for Washington--a basket-case system where by some calculations 40% of the kids drop out before...