Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...campus of frazzled people. The casual, "Hello, how are you?" often elicits more than you may want to hear. "I have so much reading to catch up on. I can't believe it's midterms already...and I have a paper due tomorrow." Or maybe it's a roll of the eyes, accompanied by, "My roommates are driving me nuts. I can't believe how incompatible we all are." And there's the senior disease, "Uh...not so good. I'm having a crisis over what to do with the rest of my life...
...course, there is the fully revised and expanded Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care by Dr. Benjamin Spock and Dr. Steven J. Parker (Pocket). The book takes the parent through adolescence. Child abuse, rock 'n' roll, AIDS: no topic is too difficult for Dr. Spock to address...
...sales: $4.7 billion), which has a 22% share of the pizza market and four times as many stores as Papa John's, has been busily boosting quality and shutting down poorly performing stores. Under pressure from Papa John's, Pizza Hut spent $50 million last year to roll out what it called Totally New Pizzas, featuring thicker tomato sauce, fresh sliced vegetables and meatier toppings. Meanwhile, Pizza Hut has closed 250 stores since PepsiCo spun it and siblings Taco Bell and KFC into Tricon last year. The new strategy pushed Pizza Hut's same-store sales up a strong...
Starr turned over rock after slimy rock. No roaches like the ones we met in Watergate or Irangate scurried out. But he did find a weevil of a sexual indiscretion. With the impatience of a Kurosawa, he shouted to his minions to roll the camera. He zoomed in on the weevil; it turned into a Godzilla; and he unveiled it to the public. The production cost was dizzying millions if you account for the man-hours lost in looking at the weevil morphed into a monster. NARAYAN RAMACHNADER Chennai, India...
...book reads quickly, and is characterized by succinct but powerful phrasing and images that roll along, taking you with them rather than inviting you to stop and analyze them. The structure of the story in terms of time is especially effective, as it starts at an unspecified moment and scene, jumps back a year and works its way up to that first scene--then goes beyond. This arrangement pulls you into the story from the first page, and holds you fast through the remainder of the book...