Word: mate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ironic disco ball. The dance floor, smaller than a New-bury Street cafe, collected tank-topped citizens of every neighborhood in Eastern Massachusetts. You could warm up here for an evening spent strolling along Revere Beach, hunting for your perfect Kelly's-roast-beef-eating, IROC-Z driving soul mate...
Many seniors preparing for marriage have the same story to tell: Although their friends have congratulated them on finding their mate for life, many others are completely surprised that the people with whom they shared a hall, a proctor or Expos class are getting married...
...amount of time with high-income constituents from L.A.'s west side. But Ronald Reagan was himself a movie actor (and appointed an actor Ambassador to Mexico). George Bush began his term shilling for a Dan Ayckroyd movie produced by an old buddy, let Arnold Schwarzenegger play his running mate last year, and had Dana Carvey in for a White House sleepover on one of his last nights as President. Why has permissible Republican good-sport glamour become an invidious symptom of Clinton's slack, "What? Me worry?" presidency...
Fifty students in Nashville, Tennessee, stand in front of a gathering of Baptist ministers to make a pledge: "Believing that true love waits, I make a commitment to God, myself, my family, those I date, my future mate and my future children to be sexually pure until the day I enter a covenant marriage relationship...
...THEORY OF EVOLUTION SUGGESTS THAT THE deepest drive of all living things is the urge to perpetuate their genes. How that's done varies widely from species to species. Take pilot whales, for example. While most guys living with relatives will leave home to find a mate, thus avoiding the genetic pitfalls of inbreeding, male pilot whales have found a reproductive strategy that better suits their oceangoing life-style. An analysis of the DNA of whale families, called pods, published in the journal Science, suggests that these young males wait until their pod collides with another, then mate with females...