Word: sinkingly
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...even after all the votes have been tallied, the reality of the decision took a while to sink in. “Before the disappointment, there is physical exhaustion, emotional exhaustion. And then you can start to feel the actual loss,” Morehouse says. “While you’re running to win, you’re also running to keep the other person from winning. So [when you lose], your ideas are gone, and the ideas that you believe are not good are being implemented every...
...grieves?" That anger makes no sense at all, because you know that person didn't want to leave you. I'd go on an airplane to give a lecture, and I wasn't afraid, because I wanted it to crash. For about a year, I ate over the sink. That's what you do when you grieve. It's not worth sitting down and setting the table. After all, I had always lived with somebody. When I was a kid, I lived with my family. When I was older, I lived with roommates. Then I got married. I never lived...
...then I somehow realized that I was a whole person, not a piece of a person. I was not going to eat over the sink for the rest of my life. This was a surprise for me. I had always thought of myself as a piece of something else or half of something. I had really thought that when I lost Milt I would fall apart. But I didn't. I realized that I could be alone. I now took care of me. I'd eat what I wanted to eat. I'd buy veal chops, which Milt wasn...
...attack places Indonesia at a crossroads. From here, deterioration could accelerate, plunging the country into bloody sectarian violence, divorcing the economy even more from the international community, and turning its far-flung islands into increasingly fertile grounds for terrorism. If that occurs, Indonesia could sink to the status of countries such as Pakistan or the Congo, where economies are chronically dysfunctional and central leadership is largely incapable of governing. It doesn't have to go that way. The attack could strengthen the hand and the resolve of Indonesia's do-nothing chief, President Megawati Sukarnoputri, allowing her to stand...
Bilingual education is the best way to even the playing field between native English speakers and those who need to learn the language. Telling non-native speakers to sink or swim in classes taught in English does far more harm than good...