Word: handed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flipped the bag of laundry he was carrying onto his shoulder and shook my hand eagerly. He asked what I wrote, what part of L.A. I lived in. Then he smiled broadly, wagged his index finger at me and told me we were going to "rock this place." Last Tuesday night, four years after we left that place, and following numerous other efforts to clean up, Jay was found hanging in his bathroom, an apparent suicide...
...other hand, was in rehab because I hadn't yet really achieved any kind of life. My nascent marriage was showing signs of miscarrying. A contracted novel I had completed was about to be rejected. During the writing of that doomed book, I had taken to ingesting prolific amounts of narcotics. I didn't take these drugs--Vicodin, Percocet, Dilaudid, morphine sulfate, Talwin, Darvon, codeine, the occasional balloon of street heroin--to help me write; I took them to make me feel better about how badly I was writing...
...shortcomings, shaking hands represents a true linkage to our past. I am reminded of my grandfather, who was born in 1890. As a small boy, he had the opportunity to shake the hand of a very old gentleman in his hometown who had shaken hands with an elderly man who, as a baby, had touched the hand of George Washington. So, as we enter the 21st century, my son, who shook his great-grandfather's hand on many occasions, has shaken the hand several times removed of a person who touched the hand of our nation's first President. Germy...
...economic growth, though only in the first five years, largely by spurring more consumer demand than a fully employed economy might need. Inflation would therefore be a bit higher in the first three years than under the Democratic plan, and interest rates could be significantly higher. On the other hand, the Republican plan includes a capital-gains tax cut of about $35 billion, a reduction that would yield a "quite significant bang for the buck," in Sinai's phrase, in spurring investment and entrepreneurial incentive. The Democrats propose a tax cut that is really a savings incentive--in Sinai...
...much loved by both students and alumni. The university contends that it keeps vigilant watch over the project; a faculty adviser manages the site, and all the students undergo safety training. Cranes and other heavy machinery are operated by licensed construction workers, three of whom are on hand at the site. But it's not clear how many adults were still around at the late hour of the accident. Then there are questions about whether the work site was sufficiently regulated in the first place. Though at 55 ft. tall and a reported 2,700 tons, the finished tower could...