Word: groupe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...four allegations of rape; of course, they have little hope of finding the rapists, who are by now scattered across the country. There were apparently numerous other incidents of sexual assault. David Schneider, a rehabilitation counselor from Jessup, Md., told the Washington Post that during a performance by the group Korn on the first night, he saw a "very skinny girl, maybe 90 or 100 lbs.," get pushed into the mosh pit, where "a couple of guys started taking her clothes off... They pulled her pants down, and they were violating her." Schneider claims that he also saw other women...
...knows for sure why pennies are disappearing. A big factor, though, clearly is people's low regard for the things. Few carry them to spend or are willing to lug heavy sacks to the bank. James Benfield of the Coin Coalition, a lobby group for eliminating the penny, figures that 25% of annual penny production ends up in landfills...
...bereft lover can be playfully vindictive, as in the up-tempo (You Remember) The Way It Never Was, where even the girl-group la-la-las in the background have the whiplash of a taunt in them. Or she can try to take the long view. In So It Goes a woman hears about the end of an affair in whispers; the news has the impact of a sudden death in the family. Yet, she tells herself, "The spring lies waiting beneath the frozen ground/ And I'll be seein' you around/ So it goes...
...really just the stalling, I think, that landed me in the slow group. I didn't like being a member of the slow group. It brought back bad memories of having a gym teacher yell that skipping is "a jump and a hop." Which, I still argue, it isn't. Either way, it's not what you want to be thinking about when you're going 70 m.p.h. through a hairpin and you're 5 in. from the ground...
...today's offsite isn't a few meetings in a windowless hotel banquet room followed by a round of golf and cocktails. More likely it's built around a truly exotic challenge, like white-water rafting, tightrope walking, adventure racing, even cooking. The common denominator: it's a group task unrelated to work...