Word: handed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...census - on the calendar since 1789 - as an "emergency." Such as that plan to create a phantom "13th month" to hide more spending-cap spillover. Such as messing with the $2,000 earned income tax credits that go to the working poor, or asking the states to hand back billions in unused welfare money...
While sterile disposability and space-age technology have their place, that place is not in your hand. Today, you are a fountain pen. Modern in its sense of history, the fountain pen has been the stylus of choice since 1884, when the first workable model was invented by L.E. Waterman, a New York City insurance salesman. Its undisputed flow dried up 60 years later, when, thinking "time is money," the man in the gray flannel suit ushered in the ball point pen introducing a new level of corporatization and homogenization to America. In the years following, America flourished...
...might be hard to convince you that I like this routine, but I do. From the day the course book arrives at my doorstep (or doesn't, in the case of this year, so I read it on the Web), I read it cover to cover, pen in hand, marking a complex pattern of courses and their relative rank in my mind. I create a database which I sort by semester, exam group, Core, concentration or elective credit, of literally hundreds of courses. I boil down to a final list that numbers in the teens and hit the ground running...
Junior midfielder Meredith Stewart was within inches of giving the Crimson a 1-0 lead with five minutes remaining in the half, when an apparent hand ball by a Hawk defender deflected it out of the box. The violation, which would have resulted in a penalty kick, was not called by the referee...
Kerr's only viable solution is to replace Kelly by committee for as long as it takes his broken hand to heal. And the prospects are not rosy for a return in the near future...