Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three say the attention has had a down side. Proctor, who posed in a sheer sweater, and Johnson-Arbor have received e-mail from men ranging from complements to obscenities. All have received telephone calls from middle-aged and older men regarding breast size...
...classic-squeezable cheese. "They ask me, 'What is this, and what do you do with it?' or 'How do you eat this?'" Many adapt quickly; one former pupil now extols the virtues of Kraft macaroni and cheese as a quick and easy children's breakfast. But at first the sheer abundance of an American supermarket can be overwhelming. Pausing before an array of 22 varieties of bread crumbs, Raftery soothes her bewildered charges: "Use any kind you want to. Just read the label to make sure there's nothing artificial...
...Buffett, money has its own logic. He does not enjoy what it can buy. In fact, spending money interferes with its real purpose from the Buffett point of view--the sheer pleasure of accumulation. "He views money as basically a way of keeping score," says Lowenstein, "a way of measuring his success." While a boy, Buffett told a friend, "It's not that I want money. It's the fun of making money and watching it grow." As Lowenstein puts it, Buffett acquired while growing up "an overly reverent view of money's proper role, as if spending were...
What to do about the situation I witnessed? It is obviously not easy, but it seems like the most important thing is to get women into the field. Through sheer numbers of women co-workers, the standards for what behavior is deemed acceptable will be raised. And in order to get more women involved in the near future, the presence of women higher up the corporate ladder has to be increased...
What is happening in Bosnia should not be mistaken for or equated to the Holocaust. The sheer magnitude of the crimes committed by the Nazis against the Jewish population of Europe outweigh the crimes committed by any group in the former Yugoslav Republic. But something of the same concept is ineluctably present. The motivation to destroy another person or group of people simply for having some cultural or religious characteristic, regardless of new tags like "ethnic cleansing," echoes too strongly of genocide. And that is where I thought that America drew the indelible line between right and wrong. Regardless...