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Word: sit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rallying in front of the John Harvard statue, PSLM protesters must influence voices far from the Yard, who, after a contract is signed, may sit back and take no notice of how the salaries impact the lives of their employees. Outsourced employees, it seems, are dispensable enough...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: Denying Wages and Outsourcing Blame | 10/28/1999 | See Source »

...always sucks not to play, but it bothers me to have someone say I can't play because I'm hurt," Springer said. "If coach chooses to play the other goalie because she's better, at least I'd know that sitting out was better for the team, but to sit out because your injured doesn't help anyone. It just bothers...

Author: By Timothy Jackson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Springer Back Between the Pipes | 10/27/1999 | See Source »

...Germany, my family lived in a quaint Bavarian hostel overlooking mountains which would impress even the Ricola house band. Each morning, we would sit to a breakfast of cereal with milk from a cow we could see through the window, bread with cheese made in the neighboring town and conversation topped with the mindless thumping of music from home. Our hosts, Christoph and Jutta, were warm country folk, with an agreeable predisposition to sausage and beer, but, alas, an ugly fetish for American music...

Author: By Hugh P. Liebert, | Title: The American Invasion | 10/26/1999 | See Source »

WALK BY Attention, parents: baby walkers--those wheeled contraptions used to prop up infants--may hinder your child's development. Data on 109 babies suggest that tots who scoot around in them are slower to sit upright, crawl and walk--and score lower on mental tests. Why? The walkers' large trays prevent infants from seeing their legs move, depriving them of feedback about how their bodies operate. They also keep them from grabbing--and learning about--things around them. That's the theory, anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Health: Oct. 25, 1999 | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...Sarah sits near the soda machines, where she can watch the whole pageant roll by. On her far left are the "scared freshmen boys, the ones who haven't really come into their own yet." At the next table are some African-American boys, and next to them is a table of preppy sophomore and junior girls. To her far right sit the seniors, divided into the In crowd and the "in-between" crowd. ("They get to talk on the phone with the In crowd but are not invited to their parties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monday: 10:36 A.M. First Lunch | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

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