Word: mate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Quants, says Barnett, who has a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago, tend to be bachelors (few are women) who live in apartments as messy as the room they left in grade school. Many of them drink hard after hours, mostly with fellow workers. They mate, if that's the word, mostly in one-night stands. When they air their lives out, it's with ski holidays and ecotourism, not yachting or casino crawling. With salaries for researchers that start at about $90,000 and can climb well over $500,000 for those who excel, they could afford...
...beginning of Day-Lewis' adult work in films was a bit part in the 1982 Gandhi. Soon he was in the South Seas shooting The Bounty, where he skulks and sulks handsomely as the craven first mate of Anthony Hopkins' Captain Bligh. It was the first of many roles in which he cast himself against heroic type. Believing that acting was a nonstop education in the spectrum of personality, he went for characters at odds with his own: the cynical surgeon in The Unbearable Lightness of Being, a wimpy art appraiser in Stars and Bars, a missionary dentist in Eversmile...
...Crimson, Williams finished 49th in the Slalom and team mate Horsley did not place...
...Tommy [Holmes] did a great job," Martins said of his line-mate. "Our penalty-killing really boosted team morale...
...sign, your date sighs, as s/he begins to be filled with a feeling locals know as Worcesterpride. You hail a cab, whistling a romantic tune by onetime Worcester resident Cole Porter, and you and your date (who by now is so impressed s/he is destined to become your lifelong mate as well as fellow Worcester resident), head to phase I of your Wicked Awesome Valentine's Day Date, dinner at the Boulevard Diner. As the saying goes "Ain't no place finer than the Boulevard Diner!" The Boulevard is an example of another fine Worcester tradition: the Worcester Lunch...