Word: highers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stop dealing with the other team altogether. When we're talking to each other, we aren't constantly forced to explain ourselves, to start from square one in every argument. We share certain basic tenets and assumptions that allow us to move straight to what feels like a much higher level of discourse...
...personal "Beercan" experience. It was a slightly grating album that was heavy on engineering but still naive--or at least straightforward. With Odelay and now Midnite Vultures, Beck has left these Mountain Dew-soaked roots for something more rarefied and cosmopolitan. Even his voice seems to have gotten higher. Grooviness has replaced grit, and Beck has moved from the wood-paneled periphery of the music industry to its hollow matrix-like core...
...money can't hurt either. Shemmer earns $45,000 a year plus $20,000 to $25,000 in annual bonuses, which are based on evaluations from higher-ups. (The median income of American households was $38,885 last year, by the way.) At that salary, Shemmer can afford his portion of the $2,400-a-month apartment he shares with a college friend. Still, everything's relative. Although Shemmer invests his annual bonus, he spends the rest. "I break even every month," he confesses. His three main expenses: rent, alcohol and cabs. Shemmer spends most Friday and Saturday nights partying...
While the editors said their book features a host of voices and experiences that are often overlooked in institutions of higher learning, they also conceded that not everyone was represented in the anthology...
Churchill returned home as these campaigns ended--and as less talented but higher-ranking officers came to resent Churchill's fame. Then, at age twenty-three, he published his first book, a comprehensive account of the Malakand Field Force. He also insinuated himself into the battle of Omdurman, by which the British reconquered the Sudan. Although Omdurman was not the last cavalry charge of the Empire, it was last great charge, and Churchill again played a hero's role. He soon afterward left the army to stand for election to Parliament. He lost the election, but he used the leisure...