Word: rite
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Swedish friend remarked to me that she found American college students to be more emotionally dependent on their parents than their European counterparts. However, going off to college is akin to a rite of passage in American culture, marking the beginning of a transformation from a dependent child to an independent one and rapidly thereafter to an adult...
Other federal work-study funds that Harvard receives have supported students performing public service work for years. The Stride Rite program funds student public service projects by providing a combination of work-study wages, book purchase grants and student loan grants...
...wish. The location is kept vague, and tickets (to pay for portable toilets and the like) are best found via the Web. By not advertising the event and making finding it a rite of initiation, Harvey gets his crowds and his harmony. By now, it's self-feeding, bigger than Harvey or anyone else. Its main draw seems to be its utter lack of meaning...
Many downtowns are reviving; yet other retailers have swiped huge chunks of Woolworth's business. Stores like Staples knocked off stationery, while drug chains like Rite Aid made deep inroads in variety goods. Current CEO Roger Farah, tired of trying to figure out how to sell notions, will convert many sites to FootLockers. Selling $100 Nikes is a much simpler--and more profitable--proposition...
...high-strung teenager was heard in each syllable. But here, through his carefully eccentric alternation of strangulated pauses and staccato paragraphs, in the almost imperceptible straightening of his body language from question mark to exclamation point, we see a footloose lad turning into a responsible young man--a rite of passage in a movie minute. Ladies and gentlemen: acting...