Word: sit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Close to campus, thousands of pre-cut trees sit in lots across Cambridge, where dozens of Christmas tree vendors annually set up shop. In addition to the scattered gas stations that sell them, several nurseries nearby offer trees of varying heights and species...
...realized how difficult it was to sit in the grass freshman year and talk about race in half an hour," Hoyes said, referring to mandatory first-year discussions on diversity...
...best sellers about attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and the drugs used to treat it without wondering about his or her child--the first time he climbs onto the school bus still wearing his pj's or loses his fifth pair of mittens or finds 400 ways to sit in a chair? The debate goes straight to the heart of our expectations and values. How dreamy is too dreamy? Where is the line between an energetic child and a hyperactive one, between a spirited, risk-taking kid and an alarmingly impulsive one, between flexibility and distractibility? What if a little...
Taking the time to talk to your kids about money is the best way to head off trouble. "Families should sit down and discuss this before consumer messages win out in a kid's mind," planner Peg Eddy says. "That means early, probably around age four or five." Parents should explain to young children that there is a house to live in and toys to play with because Mommy and Daddy work and save money. As children get older, parents may discuss more specific issues, like saving for education, giving money to charity and budgeting for holiday or back...
...handful of vitamins on the say-so of friends and news reports. "I have no evidence that these things really work," Palmer says. "I take them on faith." But they keep her away from the doctor, she says, and that's good because "I don't have time to sit around waiting in doctors' offices." Like Palmer, millions of Americans are using ancient remedies to broaden the range of modern health-care choices. And these flowering gifts from the past can be powerful medicine--but handle with care...