Word: lose
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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 return home in the working man's (yellow) limousine...
Another rule on homework: be involved, but not too much. Math-homework sessions at Mike Terry's house used to end in tears. "I would lose patience with him," admits Tom Terry, who excelled in math as a youth. "Comparing him to the ways I might have done things at his age didn't work." He had to learn to be less overbearing and to see things from his son's point of view. "We care passionately about how he's doing, but we're just calmer on the outside." Says Mike's mother Karen: "Kids are not vending machines...
...These are one-of-a-kind ecosystems," said Dominick A. DellaSala, former director of U.S. forest conservation for the World Wildlife Fund and currently the director of its Klamath-Siskiyou regional office, who drafted the letter. "We lose these ecosystems, there's nothing to replace them...
...emotionally overwhelming.When I watched it for the first time, I seriouslyfelt like I needed a lobotomy, because I wassobbing through the entire thing. I can control myemotions better now but there are still certainparts that make me lose control. That scene whereDenver has to go into town by herself becauseSethe is sick and she peeks her head out of thegate? That one always gets...
...join the new globally enlightened class on campus, you may have to lose your meat-eating ways. You may even have to abandon your North Face equipment and start subscribing to the J. Peterman catalog. Drastic changes can be quite unnerving, but considering how fixed our lives become once we've begun our journey to college graduation, an image makeover is probably easier than changing concentrations...