Word: jealous
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...prepared for yet another Christmas blitz, the two weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas breaks are really just filler anyway. So you might as well grab a peppermint mocha twist, start untangling those lights, and make use of your restless pre-vacation energy. Clearly, any scrooge is just jealous that he still has to finish his thesis chapters. The trick is to prioritize: I personally made the (in retrospect, probably poor) decision to skip my MCB 52 exam review in favor of decking the Quincy dhall for three hours. I may not completely understand exonucleases, but the tree looks pretty spiffy...
...ironing. "From women of the older generation, there was a sense of being frozen out of the relationship," says Apter. "And from the younger generation, a sense of constant disapproval or intrusion." In Apter's study, two-thirds of women said they felt their mothers-in-law were jealous of their relationships with the sons, while two-thirds of mothers-in-law said they felt excluded by their sons' wives...
...Camille—his partner in espionage but never in bed. She and M ask Bond what Vesper would think about his vendetta. “I don’t think the dead care about vengeance,” he says with false detachment. Vesper, though, would be jealous of Camille, a woman of unassuming complexity—one whose flaws and idiosyncrasies are taken for granted, not announced in a flashy Freudian face-off like the one that introduces Vesper. Camille too seeks revenge, and admits to Bond with wry satisfaction that she slept with the film?...
...government documents were routinely fabricated under Communism and an 81-year-old historian asserts that the real informant (who is no longer alive) confessed to his testimony years ago. Given the evidence at this stage, it appears that the agent was betrayed either by his college friend, her jealous boyfriend or, only possibly, Kundera himself...
...short, the $179 G1 is the one smartphone that won't make you jealous of people with an iPhone. Google's commitment to a mostly free and open market for add-on applications - users can even tweak the open-source Android operating system - also gives gadget lovers something to cheer. If nothing else, G1 will win geeky hearts and minds everywhere with its reassuring end-credits-style device info: "No robots were harmed in the making of this product...