Word: shrugging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...alternative, though, is what we have now: Serbs slaughter and starve Bosnian Muslims daily, immigration officials in Florida deny asylum to Haitians fleeing political persecution, Harvard students shamelessly rig elections, and many readers pick up their newspaper and read about these things and shrug and say, essentially, "What do you expect?" and "Who am I to judge...
...discovered. The basic facts, and Inman's responses, have long been a matter of public record. In an interview with TIME, Inman stressed his extreme reluctance to take the job in the first place -- which helps explain his hypersensitivity to criticism that someone avid for Cabinet rank might shrug off. He says he became so tense and grouchy in intelligence work that it took the first 10 of his 12 years in private life for him to relax. His wife Nancy had begun to make a career for herself as a photographer and dreaded returning to Washington...
...this was just Atlas' shrug, one would hate to see the shimmy. If this was not the Big One, then it is almost impossible to imagine what that would be like. In the aftermath of 30 seconds on Monday, at least 55 people died. Local mountains may have risen more than a foot. Nine highways snapped like twigs. An oil main and 250 gas lines ruptured, igniting an untold number of fires. So many wires fell down and circuits blew that 3.1 million people were plunged into total darkness. Water was denied to 40,000. There were more than...
...only one to shrug off evaluations; students across campus are filling in bubbles in interesting patterns, or ignoring the forms altogether. By not taking the evaluations seriously, students waste a precious opportunity to turn the tables and "grade" professors and teaching fellows on the jobs they have done...
...whilst all this hoopla works itself into a frenzy around us, it's too easy to shrug it off; after all, who wants to battle the novelty-seekers, the sales-people, the challenge of reading the wishes of your closest friends and relatives? If you had $1,000, of course, you could buy almost anything in the Square that struck your fancy. With $1,000, you could gauge just how much the Square is willing to offer you. Walk into a store and ask them to spend $1,000 for you. What you get is the finest sampling that Harvard...