Word: passes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Members of the Cambridge Retirement Board along with members of other groups representing retired city workers urged the council to adopt an ordinance that will allow the appointed Cambridge Retirement Board (CRB) to pass yearly COLAs at its discretion...
...home to 8,000 specimens of 250 species, arranged so that predators and prey seem to swim side by side. Visitors to the aquarium set off on a grand, circumnavigable tour around the world's oceans, past sharks, bluefish, wreckfish and more. Along the way they pass through naturalistic-looking coastal exhibits that represent four major littoral ecologies: rocky North Atlantic cliffs with cavorting razorbills and murres; subpolar grassy banks populated by nesting Magellanic penguins; Pacific-coast pools with a kelp forest, frolicking sea otters and flying oyster catchers; and an Indian Ocean coral reef with pygmy angelfish and giant...
...person, Carrey proves to be an open, reflective man. He exhibits little of the kinetic energy that got him to this career pass, although he does have an engaging way of slowly taking over the length of a couch with his rangy 6-ft. 2-in. body--not quite comfortably, not quite uncomfortably, half odalisque, half scrappy point guard diving for the ball. Unlike most people's, his face is more handsome the less animated it is; unlike most movie stars, then, he is better looking in person than onscreen (in another movie era, he could have been a male...
...difficult to imagine three companies springing from the Gates empire. One would own operating systems (the ubiquitous Windows line). One would own software products (titles like Word and Office). The third would own Internet businesses, including browsers. It's a long-shot scenario, but even if it comes to pass, it's nothing for investors to fear. Synergy may be the corporate watchword of the '90s, and Microsoft would lose some of that. But the history of corporate breakups is encouraging. The various pieces spun off from the original AT&T have, if figured as one, turned in consistent, market...
...That's funny, Stein. I'll let that pass...