Word: instants
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Instant coffee makes me sad. This is not a judgment on its flavor. It is because, in my personal experience, the drinking of instant coffee is a surefire indicator that the circumstances of my life have gone badly wrong. It is the taste of a grimy breakroom at a dead-end job. The grudging cup offered by a non-coffee-drinker during an unhappy visit. The weekend I spent in a dingy Iowa motel when my car broke down the first day I arrived in town for a newspaper internship...
...official mayoral residence - leaders of the region's business community began drafting potential candidates, with Bing's name at the top of the list. This time, out of civic pride, he assented. Doug Rothwell, CEO of Business Leaders for Michigan, says his peers see Bing as "someone who brings instant credibility back to Detroit. Right now that's really important. There needs to be adult supervision...
...when The Producers and Mamma Mia! showed that theatergoers preferred perky, gaudy, old-fashioned musical comedies. But Kristina should find a constituency among those who love hearing wonderful music sung by gifted voices. If any naughty folks last night recorded the show, they should immediately post some of its instant classics: Robert's devastating solo "Gold Can Turn to Sand," the rollicking girl-group number "American Man," the anthemish "Summer Rose" and a whole sheaf of romantic duets, the most memorable of which is Kristina's and Karl-Oskar's "I'll Be Waiting There." Not to bring the show...
...Still, Berlusconi's almost instant reference to a possible troop pullout was the centerpiece of a day of impassioned, often contradictory reactions from the highest levels of the Italian government. It followed the nation's worst day of military casualties since a November 2003 car-bomb attack in Nasiriyah, in southern Iraq, killed 19 Italian soldiers. That death toll was cited when Italy eventually pulled out of Iraq in 2006, but at the time of the Nasiriyah attack, Berlusconi held firm to Italy's military commitment and ironclad alliance with then U.S. President George W. Bush. (See Berlusconi's worst...
...Along the way, Elmo’s family learns about the perils of instant gratification, the difference between needs and wants, and why Mommy and Daddy need to say no: Elmo can’t have everything Elmo wants, the family needs Elmo’s help. Above all, Elmo learns the importance of talking things out with Elmo’s mother and father...