Word: sit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...knowing the risk. "People under a certain age have no claim. The real harm is known, and there may be some suits, but this move makes good business sense. Now it's time for the company to go forward." But don't expect those with smoking-related illnesses to sit back quietly. Legal challenges are expected...
...grandma hypothesis": maybe the evolutionary "purpose" of the postmenopausal woman was to keep her grandchildren provided with berries and tubers and nuts, especially while Mom was preoccupied with a new baby. If Grandma were still bearing and nursing her own babies, she'd be too busy to baby-sit, so natural selection may have selected for a prolonged healthy and mature, but infertile, stage of the female life cycle...
...days later, after the former Chicago Bull had officially signed, it was Laker coach Del Harris who broke down. Not because he'd have to baby-sit Rodman (whose last coach would be wearing a straitjacket today were he not a Zen master) but because Harris had just been fired after a 6-6 start with a team that had had ring-ceremony potential...
...many judged 47 years of relentless contumely more than sufficient punishment for Kazan's ancient apostasy. It is not at all clear how many supporters are rallying to a campaign led by two formerly blacklisted screenwriters, Abraham Polonsky and Bernard Gordon, urging the audience at the Oscar ceremony to "sit on their hands" when Kazan accepts his award unless he recants his sins. This curious plan represents something of a tactical retreat for Polonsky, who only weeks ago was "hoping someone shoots [Kazan]" because "it would no doubt be a thrill on an otherwise dull evening...
...been. I'm impatient with it. I don't likerock and roll. It's institutionalizedrebelliousness to me. I wanted to live square,live right and live right and live productively.And it was only when I decided to put down thedrugs, stupid adventuring and everything else thatI was able to sit down and write books...