Word: means
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people mean anything at all by the cant expression "untimely death," they must believe that some deaths run on a better schedule than others. Death in old age is rarely called untimely--a long life is thought to be a full one. But with the passing of a young person, one assumes that the best years lay ahead and the measure of that life was still to be taken...
...eager authors the possibilities of POD seem too good to be true, but what will this transformation mean for readers? Faced with an ever lengthening list of titles, many of dubious merit, readers may have to turn themselves into literary search engines. On the bright side, personal favorites that are noncommercial will never be more than a mouse click away. It's a confusing, if heartening, prospect. And while some industry experts predict that someday all books will be published this way, that day is probably years off. For now, the Howard Olsens of this world will be hunkered down...
...District of Columbia offer programs in which nonviolent youthful offenders avoid criminal trials and often permanent records by attending teen court. In many instances, the judge and jurors are peers of the accused kid and have the authority to mete out punishment for misbehavior like petty theft. Sentences can mean community service, such as collecting trash...
...Pink-haired Linda, who was (thankfully) meticulously neat, who had to sleep with the door open because of her allergies, and who came home grumpily one day from a job interview, startled that her potential employer had asked her to dye her hair back to its natural color. "I mean, I would take out my nose-ring for a job, but this is discrimination! My hair's clean. It's well-groomed...
...book]--and all of that's going in," he said. "That leaves what--two pages each for the rest? If you take the 100 pages they've written and condense it down to two pages, that's going to be the funniest part of the book. I mean, it has to be--the law of averages or something...