Word: mate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yang does not prepare Mate's dish in advance...
...Manoj S. Mate, a first-year law student, said he eats there "almost every...
...often tools of self-interest. Sometimes this is obvious--for example, in an outburst of anger or a fit of jealousy. But even such "good" emotions as affection can be instruments of control wielded out of insecurity. (Ever notice how your social failures outside the home can make your mate suddenly more endearing?) And the moral indignation hurled at a spouse--over his or her coldness, rudeness, sloppiness, whatever--may feel high-minded but is often crassly self-serving. The emotional world of the family, Bowen believed, can be a jungle of realpolitik and a source of endless turbulence...
...league to send the game into extra innings. We ended up losing that game, and some other heartbreakers, but the players never gave up. In one epic struggle late in the season, the umpire had to tell our players, who were at the fence cheering for their mate at bat, to sit down and be quiet...
Then his fortunes changed. In July 1992 Clinton tapped Gore to be his running mate, and Knight's career promptly took off. He took a leave from the firm to manage the vice- presidential campaign for Gore. After the election, he became deputy director of personnel for the transition, helping salt Gore loyalists throughout the federal bureaucracy and playing a role in the appointments of top officials like Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt, EPA Administrator Carol Browner and Assistant Energy Secretary Tom Grumbly...