Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cans of Moxie, beanie babies and glow-in-the-dark troll dolls crowd the long brown folding tables that fill the yellowing walls of the church cafeteria. The scents of stale cigarette smoke and Aqua Net periodically waft into the crowded room as peddlers in blue aprons circulate selling instant Lotto cards. All eyes gaze up at the main stage where numbers dance around the monstrous Bingo Board. The hypnotizing pop of the gyrating bingo balls is only broken by the clickity-clack of chips flying across the players' boards as each selected number is called out over the inaudible...
Tradition brings us together, occasionally even teaches us something we should know. And instant tradition, instead of just sounding like a ready-made dessert, combines the history of an institution with the hope for its future...
...course, there are obstacles that prevent many of us from crossing the Charles. Harvard's brilliant Ec-10 minds will not hesitate to mention that any journey into Boston entails the two greatest opportunity costs--time and money. In the age of instant gratification, sitting on the T for 15 to 30 minutes seems like an interminable amount of time. The T also costs money, $1.70 round trip (two dollars for those of us with a disturbing propensity to lose our small change). Worse yet, the T stops running at 12:30 am, which means that diehard partiers must often...
...Free agency has made it a different world," Colts president Bill Polian said, adding that people foolishly expect big contracts to translate into instant success. Polian was delighted by the wisdom of a comment made by ex-quarterback Phil Simms about the chatter over who's better, Manning or Leaf. "Phil said neither one has a clue...
...remember every word of an annoying commercial but not where we last saw the television remote? The answer may lie in a study using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to capture what happens in the brain the instant a memory is formed...