Word: hemming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...freshman dean, fill out some withdrawal petitions, a cancellation of housing form and some other random sheets of paper that will allow Harvard to keep tabs on you while they can't track your every move via ID card. These all come before the Ad Board, who will hem and haw about whether to let you, a legal adult, definitely above the compulsory schooling age, withdraw from school. Strangely enough, they'll decide it's okay. According to Bonnie Blanchard, the assistant to the senior tutor in Dunster House, all this is "to make sure you don't slip through...
...JNCO, of Los Angeles, considered the progenitor of today's wide-leg craze, has taken off from the backsides of skateboarders to the broader jean community. The company, with industry estimated sales of more than $40 million, has led the industry with styles such as suede chaps and huge hem widths. "When the rest of the industry comes in, we're already into the next style," says Tam Miller, a JNCO vice president...
...saying, "When you take the cloth in your hand and pull at this loose thread, there is a danger more stitches will come loose. Telling the truth is like that, it is much like telling a lie-- one leads to another. And soon all the stitches unravel, and the hem falls free because you pulled at just one loose thread. How much can I tell her? When do I stop...
Last year Joseph Nye, who has since retired as Assistant Secretary of Defense, warned, "If you treat China as an enemy, China will become an enemy." A containment policy such as the one the U.S. used to hem in Moscow, says Perry, "could actually undermine our security, because a China that feels encircled is quite unlikely to cooperate on vital U.S. security interests. Containment could create those security problems. It could push China to accelerate its defense modernization, which would contribute to a regional arms race, increasing the likelihood of military conflict in hot spots like Taiwan, the Spratly Islands...
...when he's talking to see who has come into the room. "You ask him a question, and he doesn't build you a watch, he answers it," says Dr. Charles Kalil, 82, a semiretired Phoenix, Arizona, physician. "It's refreshing to talk to a politician who doesn't hem and haw and has the facts...