Word: properly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Reilly? Let me tell you, we’ve done the whole cute animal thing—twice—so it was about time for the cute kid thing, and Bill is the picture of the 50s commercial kid. He is good-looking, upright and proper, and has a small book open in his hands (what could it be? The Bible? The Constitution? The Federalist Papers?) as he looks at the camera in his white-tie apparel. He makes you yearn for the simpler days of childhood, when you could just, you know, run free and wild?...
...interpreted to mean embalming Coq au Vin, cryofreezing Beef Bourgogne, and xenophobically protecting French gastronomy from any outside influence. But it can also, equally, mean protecting a craft, ensuring the transmission of the knowledge of French culinary techniques—Escoffier’s tricks for making stocks, the proper way to deglaze a pan—and saving endangered produce and small businesses from extinction. Since none of this year’s proposals has been revealed to the public yet, it is difficult to know the French’s exact intentions amidst all this arrogant rhetoric...
...last-resort medications that would only feed drug resistance. And in Africa in particular, tuberculosis is nurtured alongside AIDS in a deadly double hit: The weakened immune systems of H.I.V. patients make them more vulnerable to TB infection, and because their crippled immune systems can no longer mount proper responses, H.I.V. patients infected with TB often don't produce the recognizable symptoms of the disease such as coughing or visible lesions on chest X-rays. Their abnormal immunity also renders the myco-bacterium difficult to detect in blood-based assays...
...Bentley, I learned the first rule of posseing: you don't get to control the radio. Flo blasted the new album he's working on and sang along loudly. Though I feared it was not within my bounds as posse member, I politely asked if it was proper etiquette to sing along to our own music. "Oh yeah," he assured me. "If you don't feel it, how can you expect anyone else to?" I told him I loved the song with the sample of "Blinded by the Light" and asked him to play it again. I was becoming...
...Ahmed: Soon after I took over as chief adviser, I announced that we would hand over to the next elected government as soon as the Election Commission had completed a proper voter-registration process. We've also done some institutional reforms - in the Election Commission, the Anticorruption Commission and other areas - to establish good governance. We've set up a national human rights commission, passed the Right to Information Act, strengthened local governments...