Word: sighing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...escapist fiction, if you will. I take refuge in reading; I’m Matilda; I’m the baby who loves a bunch of authors. I eat a leisurely meal while leafing through Michel Faber’s The Crimson Petal and the White, and my blockmates sigh in envy, perpetually mourning the death of pleasure reading in college and wistfully nostalgic about the good old days when reading for fun wasn’t something fueled by the Improbability Drive of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Reading for fun—imagine that...
...both men work this time around--especially in Iowa last week, where peace is the issue, hot is the style, and former Vermont Governor Howard Dean is rapidly becoming the flavor of the month. Ask an Iowa Democrat about Gephardt or Lieberman, and the most common reaction is a sigh. Meanwhile, Dean is wicked fun, a candidate who works without text and without net, excoriating his fellow Democrats for supporting President Bush on Iraq (while cleverly leaving a way to support Bush himself--if Saddam is found to be developing nukes, and if the United Nations is willing...
...both men work this time around - especially in Iowa last week, where peace is the issue, hot is the style, and former Vermont Governor Howard Dean is rapidly becoming the flavor of the month. Ask an Iowa Democrat about Gephardt or Lieberman, and the most common reaction is a sigh. Meanwhile, Dean is wicked fun, a candidate who works without text and without net, excoriating his fellow Democrats for supporting President Bush on Iraq (while cleverly leaving a way to support Bush himself - if Saddam is found to be developing nukes, and if the United Nations is willing...
...past few weeks, what started in the '90s as a quiet debate among car buffs and greens has become, as former Nissan design chief Jerry Hirshberg says with a sigh, "a religious war." On one side are devout environmentalists and icky Hollywood types, as well as reputable safety experts who say SUVs can be death machines. A lefty group called the Detroit Project has produced slick ads charging that because SUVs use so much gas, and because some of the crude oil for that gas comes from the Middle East, and because some oil-rich princes have funded Islamic extremists...
...lack of scientific evidence that mobile phones cause cancer. Indeed, after a large study last year at Adelaide's Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science showed no increased cancer risk - contradicting a damning earlier study from the Royal Adelaide Hospital - the industry breathed a billion-dollar sigh of relief. "It may be reasonable to ask if we are like tobacco," says Michael Milligan, secretary-general of the European industry's representative group, the Mobile Manu- facturers Forum. "But the most important thing for us is that while the World Health Organization has always been very strongly against the tobacco industry...