Word: pleasants
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Give yourself a break,” Lewis writes. “Take a few hours just to go to an athletic event, a movie, a theatrical production on campus, a rock concert downtown. Sit outside and read a novel, go to a place of worship, find a pleasant place off-campus where you can be alone with your thoughts. Hang out with your friends, play frisbee, keep up the dining hall conversation till everyone else has left. It won’t hurt, and will probably only help, your academic performance.” His advice is valuable; don?...
...will probably be hearing from assisted-living representatives who argue that any increase in oversight will convert these facilities into sterile, uncaring medical institutions. But good care and a pleasant ambiance are not mutually exclusive, as the best nursing homes and assisted-living facilities demonstrate daily. The real danger to assisted-living establishments is not from regulation but from the predictable disasters that occur when vulnerable residents are left in the care of inadequately trained employees. ERIC CARLSON National Senior Citizens Law Center Los Angeles...
...birthday. What we do have are the problems that the President is leaving for the future." A Wisconsin high-schooler was more upbeat: "Rest easy, folks. The 95% of us who weren't handed our lives on a silver platter will make sure your later years are prosperous and pleasant. Just keep the Cartier watch on layaway...
...then I thought that I'd rather not do it somewhere that's all glitzy and forced romantic, like Tahiti or Scores, places that don't represent our real life together, which is actually full of tedium and drudgery, though a really pleasant tedium and drudgery. So I made her a big tofu dinner in our studio apartment. Then I woke her up at 1:30 a.m. and told her that over the past six months, I've been tearing up over Friends episodes about marriage and the ending of What Women Want. I told her that my life...
...then I thought that I'd rather not do it somewhere that's all glitzy and forced romantic, like Tahiti or Scores, places that don't represent our real life together, which is actually full of tedium and drudgery, though a really pleasant tedium and drudgery. So I made her a big tofu dinner in our studio apartment. Then I woke her up at 1:30 a.m. and told her that over the past six months, I've been tearing up over Friends episodes about marriage and the ending of What Women Want. I told her that my life...