Word: preciousness
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...this year, when first-years began thinking about who they would block with, one thing was certain: far fewer choices would be available to them than had been to past students, and the spots in their blocking groups would be far more precious...
...high school just like the rest of us. Each clubhouse represents for them a guarantee of lifelong popularity. The humiliations of high school remain a memory, since girls flock to the only parties that definitely won't close at 12:45. Final club members live in fear that their precious edge on the competition will be dulled if they throw open parties...
...adore having daughters in every respect but one: we have drastically different tastes in toys. When Zoe was born almost 11 years ago, I truly believed I would raise her with no gender bias. So I tried to give my precious daughter, and later her unparalleled sisters Ella and baby Clementine, the kinds of things I enjoyed as a lad--plastic dinosaurs, soldiers, guns that shoot real projectiles, and of course anything that involves a remote control. In other words, the fun stuff...
...authors themselves are on the funky side. They both shave their heads, wear leather trousers, listen to techno-rock and call their lectures "gigs." Though flippantly argued, their book makes the serious point that we've entered an age in which time and talent are the most precious commodities. It shows how businesses can exploit the myriad opportunities in a world in which hierarchical corporations are passe, lifelong careers are rare and a company's most critical resource "walks out the door around 5:30 p.m. every...
...raised with geese," added Littlebrook, who is a member of the Lakota nation from Montana. "They are precious birds...