Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bradley's proposals were] an old-style approach that spends a lot of money but doesn't have any new ideas. [He proposes] the expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit. I was the author of that proposal. I wrote that, so I say, welcome aboard. That is something for which I have been the principal proponent for a long time...
TIME: You say you feel you are finally "connecting"? What does that mean...
...CHRISTMAS? Maybe not Laptops may be hard to get this holiday season because of a liquid-crystal-display-panel shortage. Analysts say manufacturers will meet only 86% of demand this year, and you can expect longer wait lists for models with larger screens and higher resolution. The September quake in Taiwan threw off memory-chip production too. Rather than raising prices, some makers may end up giving less bang for your buck. Best advice: buy now or well after Christmas...
...Yeah. I don't like it. It gets old. Thank goodness I can say it's not distracting. It's just...
...Kids say the darnedest things. "We holded the baby rabbits." "The alligator goed kerplunk." "Horton heared a Who!" These lapses, you might dimly recall, have something to do with irregular verbs. But please don't stop reading just yet. Children's errors are not just anecdotes for grandparents or reminders of long-forgotten grammar lessons. They're windows into the workings of language, history and the human mind...