Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...twice the 1995 number. Summer-school enrollment is on the rise, as are prep courses for the SATs; the Princeton Review got so many tutoring requests in the ritzy Hamptons this year that it had to rent a summer house to accommodate all the tutors. "It's getting pretty grim out there," says Dave Berry, president of College Prep Services, Inc. "Colleges want to see that high school students aren't sitting around watching Seinfeld reruns all summer...
Indeed, Belfast is hardly as grim and unpleasant as most Americans think. I've been over here for about a month now, working for the U.S. State Department and have had the chance to explore the city from a unique perspective...
...they don't emphasize--but what doctors have known for a while--is that smoking cigars on a regular basis significantly increases your risk of developing emphysema as well as cancers of the lung, lip, throat and esophagus. Last week the New England Journal of Medicine added to that grim list, reporting that cigar smoking also boosts your risk of heart disease...
...will need to display that hidden side if Israelis are to unite behind a renewed peace process. Washington, eager for a foreign policy success before Clinton leaves office, especially against the grim backdrop of Kosovo, will urge the parties to speed toward new agreements. Barak wants agreements too, but on his terms. He has pledged to withdraw Israeli forces from south Lebanon within a year, but he rejects the notion of a unilateral pullout. He is ready to do a deal with Syria on returning the Golan Heights but hangs tough on demilitarization and full normalization of ties...
...distribution. "Laptops can be a nightmare," he confessed. Bowed, but not broken, I borrowed a desktop PC from the bowels of Time Inc. and set to work partitioning my hard drive so that I could keep Windows on one portion and install Linux on the other. This was grim work, but with Thor on the phone calling the shots, I was able to install Red Hat in about 90 minutes. I rebooted my machine...