Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...come and find them. And there's no question that the handouts are a lot more enticing--free T-shirts and playing cards are certainly a step up from a fistful of candy and four years' worth of worthless e-mails from a mailing list you just can't seem to shake...
...looking to find a livelihood and not a hobby, the essence of the event is the same. We need to make a decision about where to invest our energies, we're new to the area and we'd like to know our options. So why did it seem that all those glossy recruiting pamphlets contained fewer choices than did the tacky posters and ridiculous stunts of long ago? Why did it seem as if the same power suit, the same strong handshake, the same future sat behind each and every table...
...CTBT still could have been rejected if the ensuing debate had proven it a bad idea. By rejecting it now, we have, in Clinton's words, "severely harm[ed] the national security of the United States" and "damage[d] our relationship with our allies." Unfortunately, these concerns don't seem to matter as long as Lott and the GOP have a chance to publicly embarrass their arch-nemesis...
...Think of your cards as a tool. If you use them often but pay them off each month, you stand to earn perks as well as accruing a positive credit history. Though this may not seem like a big deal now, it will come in handy when you want to finance graduate school, buy a car, buy a house, etc. A negative credit history, on the other hand, can actually prevent you from making future purchases...
...most people try to counter feelings of listlessness with activity, motion, movement. Yuppies seem to take this to an extreme and counter feelings of extreme ennui with extreme activity-i.e. violence; repress your IKEA-fueled angst long enough and it'll explode in your face like a computer at midnight on New Year's Day 2000. Aggression seems truly to be the key to defusing the ticking time-bomb of yuppie angst. This is obvious in Fight Club: the entire movie is centered around the premise that yuppie poster boy Edward Norton finds escape from his micromanaged world only...