Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...politically. That may be why nobody appears overly surprised -- or concerned -? that the country?s parliament, the Duma, on Thursday rejected a key package of economic reforms. The proposed reforms would have been an effort to meet the preconditions for a $4.5 billion IMF loan required to roll over Russia's debts to the international institution. "This was entirely expected," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "It?s a lame-duck Duma voting down conditions agreed to in April by a government that no longer exists as a challenge to a lame-duck president. The curious thing is that...
...which makes Paul Maidman, a.k.a. Fryz, roll his eyes. Maidman used to hang out with gH, but now he's 18 and has long since outgrown such shenanigans. "I don't like Web-page hacking," he says. "It's too easy. It's the younger kids who do it--13- or 14-year-olds. As time goes on, you realize you don't really gain anything...
...inadequate for me. How can any self-respecting info junkie--who's presumably already paying for a cell phone and a separate Net connection--afford that? Is the Palm VII only meant for rich guys who own websites that just went public? Or maybe 3Com is intentionally trying to roll out the device slowly, perhaps as a way of ensuring that Palm.Net can handle what would otherwise be crushing demand? Since the gizmo is being sold only in the New York City area until it's distributed nationally in the fall, I'm backing the crushing-demand theory. Later...
...sense a strain of self-contempt these days in English satire? Not self-doubt, of course, and certainly not humility, just a weary roll of the eyes that follows a glance in the mirror? So it seems with Barnes' very funny, very sour new novel, which re-creates England as a theme park on the Isle of Wight. The park is the brainstorm of Sir Jack Pitman, an overweening press lord, and his staff members, one of whom has doubts: "How do we advertise the English...a people widely perceived...as cold, snobbish, emotionally retarded, and xenophobic? As well...
...neared the drive, Carmack changed his mind and slowed up to collect it on one hop, when his feet came out from under him, allowing the ball to roll away to the right-field wall, scoring Elrod with the eventual winning...