Word: safely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their efforts to legalize the practice of body art, and a 16-year-old Oregonian recounted her hard life as a single mother. "Generation X actively pursues the deflation of the ideal," says Karen Ritchie in her book, Marketing to Generation X. "No icon and certainly no commercial is safe from their [Xers'] irony, their sarcasm or their remote control. These are the tools with which Generation X keeps the world in perspective...
Naturally, we're doing everything possible to ensure that your Lower Keys missile-watching experience will be a safe and happy one. I personally spent two weeks trying to get the Air Force to answer a question about whether the Patriot-like missiles that will be coming at us from Eglin will be carrying warheads capable of blowing us up if they should miss the target missiles. To which I eventually received, in writing, the not entirely soothing reply, "The interceptor [Patriot-like] missiles are 'hit-to-kill' design or are a proximity-fused design which carries conventional explosives...
Believe in institutions, but do not marry them. Establishments exist to moderate; they look for function. You are likely to work for some company or other, but keep a safe distance. There is no contempt as bitter as that felt by compromised minds for the independent ones that have joined them. Grin broadly at the water cooler, and go home to where you live...
...safe. Rarely do I see a police car near Mather House," said a Mather resident...
...could make all your grants to Harvard if you want to make safe bets to places that already have vast resources," he says. "But what's the value added...to other less resource-rich places...