Word: skipped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from local residents was immediate and intense. People with sleeping bags started lining up outside the development's office six days before the first applications were to be given out. Soon the crowd swelled to 200, and the police had to be called in when several people tried to skip to the head of the line. Says Society Hill Developer Ara Hovnanian, a major builder throughout the Northeast: "We've been in the business for 26 years, and we've never seen anything quite like...
...take the kids. But while they're watching and hoping that the order of the universe gets realigned, you might want to skip out to get a bite to eat or to get the car fixed or to update your insurance policies. In Legend, matters of Good and Evil just aren't for adults...
...would like to reply to Steve Lichtman's article concerning the Oxfam fast. In the article he states that there are three reasons that students should skip the fast, all of which I would like to refute. Reason number one is that the dining hall only gives $1.30 to Oxfam out of the $6 we are paying for dinner. Lichtman argues that since most students go out for dinner and spend $5-6, we should merely donate $5 to Oxfam. I agree that would be better, but the fact is that if it were not for the fast, almost nobody...
...most successful fast would see every dining hall employee getting paid for doing no work, every student painting the town--and starving folk in Africa and elsewhere getting far less than if we avoided the pretense of Oxfam night altogether. So do a starving family in Africa a favor. Skip the Oxfam fast...
...Nashville these days, citizens skip discussions of the weather to ask, "Are you rotating?" Music City, U.S.A., turning on to the latest pop dance fad? Not quite. Instead, Nashville has embraced the newest fat fighters' miracle: the rotation diet. Local restaurants are featuring meals from the plan's menu; grocery stores are posting signs touting approved fruits, vegetables and other foods. So popular has the plan become that an estimated 70,000 residents, about 10% of the city's population, are now rotating feverishly, caught up in a mad whirl to "Melt-a-Million" pounds collectively by mid-May. They...