Word: particularly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trustworthy organization. Over the last six years, the efforts and leadership of council members have elevated the council's ability to make real changes on behalf of the student body. The discovery of the missing $40,000 was a direct result of the council's new professionalism, in particular the conduct of an internal review of the council's books and the institution of better financial controls...
There is a limit to the role playing. You cannot really choose your identity: you are a 10-year-old boy. You can pick any name when you assume the role of the child--your own, your friend's, your neighbor's. But one particular selection is volunteered: Ash, the name of the hero in the Pokemon TV series. He walks down from his room and, seeing his mother (a father is nowhere to be found), tells her he is departing on a quest. She replies, "Right. All boys leave home someday...
Today health care in general and obesity treatment in particular attract charlatans. You made little mention of the health risks of their schemes. Entrepreneurs who market diets via their books are promoting not health but self-image. Your report gave my patients permission to eat whatever they choose with utter disregard for their health. CLARENCE M. LEARY, M.D. Lodi, Calif...
...didn't help. During a category called "Walken, Hopper or Keitel," we had to pick the actors who starred in a particular film. For Mother, Jugs & Speed, one contestant buzzed in with "Walken" and was pronounced wrong. Another answered incorrectly with "Hopper." Sensing a big opportunity, I rang in and proudly said, "Hopper," which was still wrong. Seeing this on videotape cemented my decision never to have children...
...have never so much as held a Game Boy--though in my role as uncle, I have held boys who were playing the game. I don't know the Pokemon toys, cards or comic books. I once watched 10 minutes of the Pokemon TV show, and that particular episode must have been the antidote to the one that provoked seizures in 700 Japanese kids; it put me near to sleep. So as I describe my exasperation with Pokemon: The First Movie, be gentle in your derision. Sometimes the young have to indulge their elders...