Word: noted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kids have taken note of this disregard, and if there's a lesson for parents in the Nickelodeon/TIME poll, it's tune in to your kids and show them some respect. While the majority of parents in the study claim to have great respect for kids, only 31% of kids feel that adults actually do respect them "a lot." This "respect gap" is even more glaring among kids in the 12- to 14 age group: 27% said they get little respect from adults or none...
...example, in a recent note reminding my daughter to feed the dog, I began with an epigraph from Goethe...
...revised a hastily dashed off Post-it note to my wife ("I'm at the gym--back by 7:30 or so") to read: "I'm engaged in my daily somatic aggrandizement. I'll see you when the crepuscular light imbues your hair with its magenta indolence...
...fourth draft of a note to the plumber about replacing an old cast-iron wastewater line with polyvinyl-chloride pipe. After a fairly straightforward preamble, it veers off into a six-page symbolist idyll about a lake and a passenger-less rowboat "drifting away in errant eddies like a strange and mute child." It's really quite beautiful...
...will soar in value. Even though the long malaise in Japan illustrates that an economy can take decades to snap back, odds are that emerging nations will recover in the next few years. To reap the spoils, you'll need to be there before the recovery is obvious. Take note: the fast money has already been made. This year's rally is the result of money flowing in from investors who long ago recognized that the worst of the global crisis was over. If that's your premise, don't bother. You're late. To buy emerging markets...