Word: give
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hoped I was. SAT's and IQ tests made me very uneasy. I still become jittery when someone in the room proposes a brainteaser I haven't heard before. That is part of the reason why I chose to attend an American college known for its unwillingness to give students C's. But this plan failed because intelligence is evident only in comparative terms, and it is painfully obvious that, judged by the standard of my peers, the Eastern European professors must be looking at my test papers and saying to themselves "I think that he is just very stupid...
...cannot give an open-ended humanitarian commitment to the world," he said. "It's much better deal with the 32 ethnic wars going on in the world right now in a multilateral context. That means more...
...actions were contrary to Delta's stated policy of not giving away a seat on an overbooked flight without asking if there are passengers willing to give up the seat," Cronan said. "It is also contrary to the policy that if you arrive 20 minutes early, with a ticket, you will get your seat...
That doesn't seem likely. Although The New York Times newsroom is reportedly awash in hysterics over how to cover the millennium--whether or not the Gray Lady should give in to the poor math of the mob--no one else really cares. For most of us, those three zeroes are pretty convincing...
...ball drops in Times Square and the lights are still on when it hits the bottom, you can breathe a little easier. Just don't exhale completely. Give it a couple more days; then, if all goes well, you can curl up on the sofa and laugh yourself silly at a tape of Y2K--assuming your VCR still works, of course...