Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kiss and a clutching hug as always--confounding me as usual, for it seems so obvious that they only live three T stops away and across the river. "How is school?"..."How are your classes?"..."How are your friends?" Normal questions, the some old routine. Then, "There's something I need to tell you." Her hands stretched out across the table as I fiddled with soggy Sweet and Low wrappers. "Pop's score went up. They had to do a bone scan to see if the cancer had spread...
...building will be located in what Zewinski described as "the last obvious development site within the within the Molecular and Cell Biology science complex...
...sponsoring romantic excursions, you've got to think about that poor kid. Because their lives are going to make "The Truman Show" look like a cakewalk. In fact, the first baby of the new millennium probably will have a camera following them around to document their life--after the obvious success of "The Truman Show," it's practically a given. In fact, I am surprised that that simply charming couple from San Diego hadn't already lined up a production team. What San Diego couple, you ask? Why, the very one that had originally intended to visit the island nation...
...important aspect of the recent shuffling is that nearly all the mergers have been domestic corporate marriages rather than cross-border European takeovers, which had been expected to proliferate when the euro was introduced in financial transactions in January. The main reason is efficiency: it is becoming obvious that domestic mergers offer big commercial banks a fast way to reduce expenses before they take the more uncharted jump outside national borders. "There's a preference to start with domestic mergers first because they offer the quickest way to reduce excess capacity by cutting jobs," says Hendrikus Blommestein, acting head...
...high school, according to the most recent figures from Consumers Union. Those twin economic pressures have led to a disturbing trend on school grounds. In the past nine months, public school exclusivity deals with cola companies have soared 300%, to a record 150. And that's just the most obvious signal that schools are open for business. Calvin Klein models pout on the covers of textbooks; homecoming may be sponsored by Dr Pepper; Taco Bell dishes up burritos at a school cafeteria near you; and that new overhead projector may be just one company's way of saying thanks...