Word: kidded
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...There's always a hesitation with team-building," says Pat Whelan, a corporate-bonding veteran who is working with PIU to run the courses in several states. But the childishness of the exercises, he adds, is the point. "When you were a kid, you didn't have to like all the other kids you played with. You just played." PIU's activities, he says, sure beat the trust-building exercise one company asked him to run using a plank between two hot-air balloons. He declined...
...department of sports administration with CPS, knew Duncan well before working under the CEO. The two were raised one block away from each other in Hyde Park. “He grew up in the unlikely scenario,” says Wilkins, “of a kid from a solid middle class background going across the very real racial lines of Chicago to tutor kids eight blocks from where he lived...
...sound coming from her in short gasps, “Makay! Makay! Makay! Where are you? Your mama’s calling!” She pushed on in front of us to shouts of “Make way! Make way! She’s looking for her kid!” Nick and I looked at one another and agreed that, despite the meaningful occasion, this was no place for children...
Well, I'm always hopeful. I think this is a great country, and we have a great Constitution. We have, as you know, severe challenges. The recession we're in is the worst I've seen since the Great Depression. I was a kid during the Great Depression, it was a terrible time. Now, is it the same? No. Are there parallels? Yes. Are the parallels scary? You darn...
...entering the House chamber through the East door. It was the biggest door I had ever gone through. It also was the biggest chamber I had ever seen. Remember, I was six years of age. I had never been in a place like this. I was a working-class kid from a Polish neighborhood in Detroit, and this was quite an event for me. I've only begun in later years to appreciate what it all meant...