Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...general, local political observers say they expect all seven incumbents--Born, Galluccio, Kenneth E. Reeves '72, Michael A. Sullivan, Timothy J. Toomey Jr., Katherine Triantafillou, and Davis--to be re-elected, though Davis's position is tenuous. In 1997, she was the ninth councillor to be elected...
...idea of making SAC smaller is to give associates a greater chance to work on special projects that are now taken by SAC members and to give them a greater say in what goes on at the IOP," Dryer said...
Even children do it. Told that a man likes to wug, they will say yesterday he wugged. Children are not sponges; they're constantly creating sentences and words, never more clearly or charmingly than when they encounter the second flavor of verb, the quirky irregulars. The past tense of spring is sprang, but the past of cling is not clang but clung, and the past of bring is neither brang nor brung but brought. English has 180 irregulars, a ragtag list that kids simply must memorize...
...also combine words into bigger words and sentences, using the second trick of language, rules. Journalists say that when a dog bites a man, that isn't news but when a man bites a dog, it is. Rules let us convey news by reshuffling words...
...that the monitoring of computer habits can benefit users by customizing service to their tastes, such as e-mailing someone information on a recording artist they have previously downloaded. "The problem wasn't that they invaded people's privacy, but that they invaded people's privacy without their permission," says Quittner. "In the case of RealJukebox, it's a banal thing because it's music, but you can extrapolate a little bit and see how it's a problem as we move forward with other types of information. Say it's a health care web site, and now they...