Word: listenability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just about every pet owner has a story like this and is eager to share it with anyone who will listen. On very short notice, TIME staffers came up with 25 anecdotes about what each is convinced is the smartest pet in the world. Among them: the cat who closes the door behind him when he goes into the bathroom; the cat who uses a toilet instead of a litter box -- and flushes it afterward; the dog who goes wild when he sees his owner putting on blue jeans instead of a dress because jeans mean it is time...
...been warning them for weeks that something like this was going to happen, but they just won't listen," Spillar complains. "They say it's a local law-enforcement issue. We know that's not true. We've had cooperation from the offices of the attorneys general of Texas and New York when these kinds of things started...
...city, it is discovered that time moves more slowly for people in motion. In this world, however, the happiest people are those who have stopped competing to live in the fastest house, but instead "rise in the morning, take baths, eat plaited bread and ham, work at their desks, listen to music, talk to their children, lead lives of satisfaction...
...tell you that if things got really out of hand that I wouldn't say, listen, what you're saying is really disruptive and I'd like you to stop, but I don't think Professor Mansfield reaches that level." Green said, "I wouldn't sit idly by if had the Ku Klux Klan marching through the Yard...
...letter, Prof. Mansfield presented a potentially "shocking" idea to Ali; the entire Harvard community should listen. Minority students "are being hurt more by the inept good will of whites than by lingering racism." That is the lesson I am learning every day at Harvard as racial tensions continue to increase behind a veil of silence. We cannot tacitly accept this misguided crusade for justice. The consequences of affirmative action should not be ignored or silenced--especially by its recipients themselves...