Word: self
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...move to Midland is at the heart of his official myth. Driving out in an old Cutlass with $20,000 and a dream, scraping by in tatty chinos and beat-up shoes. It's as close as the son of a President can get to calling himself a self-made man. The details may be true, but the message is bogus, because it ignores Bush's extraordinary family connections. He tried hard to be a regular guy but wasn't; he was famously frugal--"so tight he damn near squeaked," says a colleague--but didn't really need money. Rich...
TITLE GONE, SELF-RESPECT INTACT...
...route to the bottom line by unveiling a "travel right or your money back" offer. Announcing better customer service, improved food options and enhanced amenities on board, Amtrak president George Warrington pledged to offer dissatisfied train passengers a refund voucher starting later this year. Under pressure to become fully self-sufficient by 2003, Amtrak sees improved service as a way to increase passenger volume and rake in $85 million over the next three years...
Anne's objectivity when describing her own emotions, thoughts and actions allows the reader to become her and to observe her at the same time. Her direct style and self-comprehension enabled her to put emotions into words that most adolescents have a hard time putting into thoughts. Believing that she doesn't love her mother, having aspirations of fame and recalling touching a friend's breasts are told of delicately and unabashedly. Anne did not excise these anecdotes even in extensive editing for potential publication...
...normal, but also more trivial for me, because I had the privilege of life. The passion Anne had in her life and her art injected my life with these same elements as well. Sensuality, love, anger, sadness and joy became more alive to me in my own development and self-assessment...