Word: freshness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...everyone is fighting. Many, especially younger children, flock to this American invasion and sit catatonic in front of the screen as the English dialogue is matched by Hebrew and often Arabic or Russian subtitles. Hours on end they sit, watching-and learning. Dylan Mckay, the Fresh Prince and Kramer have a new job on their hands here: they are teaching English around the clock, more thoroughly and at a younger age than the Israeli school system manages to do. The children soak up the language and with it what they see as American styles, dress and mannerisms...
...also an intellectual (his police beat was forged and stolen art), he isn't satisfied with his first-draft images. As he revises and colors them in, he achieves a union with Nuala that, against all odds, isn't totally one-sided. The result is a reading experience as fresh and basic as lying down feverish on cool, clean linens with loving hands to tuck...
After all, it takes many to paint a city, but even more to give it a fresh coat...
...June evening, I left work late. Desperate to relax and enjoy the fresh air, I rolled down my windows and turned on my music, driving at a leisurely pace. On Interstate 287, I looked with pity at the other drivers, their tinted windows shut tight, racing to be the first home. They weren't having nearly as much fun as I was. They rushed past me, cutting each other off, fighting to gain even one car length. I thought I knew the secret to a happier existence...
...online stock trading service E*Trade got a big boost Friday afternoon when the giant Japanese software distributor Softbank announced it was investing a fresh $400 million in the upstart brokerage. Forget Kleiner Perkins -- the Tokyo-based Softbank is the real kingmaker when it comes to anointing web frontrunners. The investment raises Softbank's stake to 27% of E*Trade, and matches the company's large ownership interest in other web winners like Yahoo (31%) and Geocities (35%). Softbank also owns more than 70% of electronics publishing giant Ziff-Davis...