Word: nosey
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...Some are not so lucky. Some continue to live their college lives under the watchful eye of their parents. All such parents are not the same, but they can be roughly classified into four types: the Overprotective Parent, the Control Freak, the Parent Who's Living Vicariously, and the Nosey Parent. Admittedly, the above parenting disorders are closely related and often overlap, but there are distinct causes and symptoms that identify each...
Over the last three years, while the investigation has been opened, closed and then re-opened again, Baltimore has become the leading public spokesperson for scientific independence from congressional scrutiny. He wholeheartedly defends the laboratories associated with the doctored data. Science rests on trust and accuracy, Baltimore says, and nosey members of Congress can only screw things...
...would be Moses because he led his people to the Promised Land and that's just where you're going to take us, isn't it? But you can't take us to the Promised Land if you have to make a trillion zillion promises to a bunch of nosey senators along the way, now can you? Judge, you don't have to bother answering me until the end. I'm just going to ask you a series of asinine questions in an annoying, high-pitched whine...
...launch pad, Columbia was circling the earth at an altitude of 150 miles. Before the end of the day it reached 170 miles. Meanwhile, two vessels steamed out to recover the 80-ton shells of two spent solid-fuel rockets that had parachuted into the Atlantic. When a nosey Soviet "trawler" edged into the site, the Coast Guard vessel Steadfast had to warn it off, then actually block its path, before the Russians backed off. The steel rocket frames were burned and bent a bit, but can probably be overhauled and refilled for another shot...
...refuse to list any concerts for today because that would be against my religion, and so everybody else has to suffer. (By the way, nosey, I wrote this on Tuesday night, so it's kosher.) Anyhow, Friday and Saturday at least, you just gotta catch the Dead Boys Down at the Rat. No question about it, it's the rock event of the week. Sun Ra'll be at John Hancock Hall on Friday night at 8. Cleo Lane and John Dankworth and Willie T. Wheel will be at the Berklee Performance Center and The Stone Soup Society, in that...