Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...20/15 in both eyes, thanks to LASIK. Was it uncomfortable? Slightly. Is it amazing? Absolutely. To be able to see my children in the water at the beach is truly wonderful. Could I afford it? No way. So to my incredible mother who gave me (and my sister) the gift of sight after 20-plus years, I say, "You are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen." ELLEN MURPHY BENNETT Atlanta...
Readers get tips on attire, business-card customs, entertaining and dining, conversation, gestures and public manners, gift giving, greetings and introductions, punctuality, tipping and so on for each area and all the specific countries therein. This way you'll know not to blow your nose in public in Belgium, where it's considered an offensive gesture. Or not to eat everything on your plate in Taiwan. Knowing the local language is an advantage in getting acquainted with others and being accepted. But if you're not fluent, says Sabath, "one way to successfully conduct business is to become knowledgeable about...
Irregular and regular verbs embody the two underlying tricks behind the gift of articulate speech: words and rules. A word is a memorized link between a sound and a meaning. The word duck does not look, walk or quack like a duck. But we can use it to convey the idea of a duck because we all once learned to connect the sound with the idea...
...women are struggling to make ends meet in a society that continues to dismantle basic guarantees of justice and decency even as the rich and the poor grow increasingly unrecognizable to each other. At Harvard, where words like "diversity," "equality" and "civility" are tossed around as effortlessly as major gift contributions, why do class distinctions so often harden along lines of color and language...
...Giving the gift of life: FM makes a deposit at a local sperm bank...