Word: mined
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cambridge; it's where I care about. So I must figure out my ballot. The paper's endorsements are read to me over the phone, everything filtered through my family. I'm not being a grown-up and proudly casting my vote according to my opinion and mine alone. I'm begging for advice in my void of information...
...look at how the world has changed. Today there are plenty of online services (including mine, thestreet.com that give you as good a financial-news feed for $10 a month as the ones that cost $1,500. All the information I used to get from the library? It is available on the Net. And if I want to take action, I connect by computer to any online-trading room in the country and have my trades executed as swiftly and cheaply as if I were running Fidelity...
...there's a lot more to jazz than just a catchy beat. There were whole new chords and phrases and key changes--and moods--that the rag writers hadn't even touched yet. From 1919 to 1924 these would virtually serve as Gershwin's private playground and personal gold mine, from which the Brooklyn-born son of immigrants proceeded to extract all kinds of music, including, in one glittering shovelful, not just his famous Rhapsody but also a related song called The Man I Love. This would beget almost instantly a new kind of American song, exemplified by Porter...
...time, a whole new generation of talent had broken into Gershwin's gold mine and was digging away merrily for songs like Stardust, Stormy Weather and Dancing in the Dark. Even established writers like Jerome Kern and Vincent Youmans began to swing a little with Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man and Time on My Hands, respectively. But no matter what anyone else did, Gershwin seemed to stay at least two moves ahead, causing Youmans reportedly to mutter "so the son of a bitch thought of it" every time Gershwin struck again...
...think most people will be looking to revise and edit their essays," Diaz said of the work left to do. "Right now, I am giving mine to every person I know in the hope I can make it as polished as possible...