Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...novel dwells. This sexual flowering as a physical manifestation of Jane's spiritual awakening has rather disturbing implications. She begins the novel as a pudgy, insecure nonentity and she finishes it as a slender, successful, pretty non-entity. Her "change" is really the fulfilling of a chauvinistic societal ideal...
...awfully hard to tell the Thais they had something to worry about when they were growing at 8% a year. They're a lot more attentive now." Greenspan and Rubin hope they can turn that attention into the kind of reforms that will make these emerging markets closer to ideal. Among the top priorities: cleaner international banking systems, transparent lending practices and more open markets. As soon as they can ram those changes through, they expect growth to pick up again--possibly just in time to help a flagging U.S. economy...
...thought I had discovered dating Nirvana; there were thousands of men in Manhattan alone who had posted ads looking for everything from "alternative life-styles" (read: kinky sex) to long-term relationships. The detailed search options on age, race, religion or any key word practically let me design my ideal virtual lover from scratch. Soon I was exchanging e-mail with an Argentine physicist who said he loved to tango. After a whirlwind 10-day e-mail affair, I knew we had to meet...
Rettig's training consists of attending boxing club practices every weekday. The laid-back, friendly atmosphere of the HBC, which practices in the Malkin Athletic Center, is ideal, he said...
...acknowledges that conditions have not been ideal and that some people may have been disrupted, but she says she is pleasantly surprised with how smoothly the process has gone...