Word: run
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Following the terms set out by last year's Good Friday agreement, Britain ended 27 years of direct rule, giving local politicians the power to run Northern Ireland. The Republic of Ireland, in turn, has relinquished its constitutional territorial claim to the British province...
...that over the course of my FM career, I've poked fun at florists, motorcycle enthusiasts, carnival workers and pre-frosh, just to name a few. Disparaging consultants should be easy by comparison. Consider: Investment bankers spend 18 hours a day entering numbers into spreadsheets. They "analyze data" and "run regressions." Consultants "work in teams" and "brainstorm." They figure out how to "streamline" and "trim the fat." "Let's get back to basics," they might say, pointing to a 3-D pie chart on their PowerPoint presentation. It was as though the Starr report had just come out and everyone...
...jail. Actually, check that. The right "-ism" will be worth going to jail for. The right "-ism" will be all I need to be happy. I want to want to pour my heart into something, to lay everything I care about on the line. I want to run out into the pouring rain half-naked and scream at the sky. I want to stop asking my boss if I can use the bathroom, and take a bus to the Pacific Coast in Mexico. I want to chip away at a wall for 19 years and watch as the final layer...
...SPAD: When I was doing Student Government one of the things that we always did was what we called Breakthroughs at football games. The football team would run through these sheets. It had these little cords that ran in front of it. One time these ropes had gotten crossed somehow. I was the one who was supposed to fix this. I was running back and forth in front of it and almost got killed by the football team. They had chosen the time that I was running in front of it to straighten out the cord [to run...
...run late...