Word: fork
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ambitious campaign platform: He hopes to renovate the MAC and to throw myriad comedy shows, rock concerts and tailgates on campus. He's betting students will fork over another $5 each year to pay for the social activities...
...reach a point at which it seems we must choose between two goals--financial success vs. academic or intellectual pursuit. We reach a fork in the road--for money, make a left; for a profession of personal, intellectual and emotional integrity, bear right. An essential piece of the puzzle which often seems to go unsaid is the fact that whether we like it or not, we need money. Let us not belittle the world of privileges, education, travel and culture to which money is vital. We are not defending one who looks at 90-hour weeks, no sleep, no family...
...imagination. And so the beautiful thing about Clinton and the horrible thing about him too is that he moves with these changes almost daily, modulating his positions to fit the changing moods. If Dole, in his style and syntax, often seems strangely off-key, Clinton is a tuning fork, banging himself again and again against the edge of the table to see if he can get even closer to perfect pitch...
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...magic bullet that makes commerce viable on the Web. Suppose that, say, a certain TIME writer wants to promote his short stories online. Putting them on a Web site is a breeze. But suppose he wants to charge readers 50[cents] a story? Nobody's going to fork over a credit-card number for that...