Word: skips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Henry Louis "Skip" Gates' father awoke him this morning at 6:30 a.m. with the news, and since then Gates said he has been in a "daze...
...conspiracy of lies and deceptions that have been perpetuated on the American public by the tobacco companies," said Arizona's Grant Woods, who brought one of the first state suits that aim to recoup billions of dollars in Medicaid money spent on illnesses related to smoking. Attorney general Hubert ("Skip") Humphrey III of Minnesota emphasized the battles ahead: "This is like busting a street drug dealer to get the Colombia cartel. We are very serious about going ahead and making sure the entire industry is transformed...
Inferiority is a big public issue here at the moment: the Minnesota legislature is debating whether to build a stadium for the Minnesota Twins, who might skip town if they don't get one, and where would that leave us? Back in the minor leagues, that's where. No different from Des Moines or Omaha. The Governor, who favors the stadium, recently told the people of Minnesota, who do not, that without major league sports the Twin Cities would be like Des Moines, "absolutely dead," which caused some consternation in Iowa and not much in Minnesota, where the fear...
...Leave out the parts the readers skip," Hillerman says is the best advice he's ever received. "You'll have this great description--you distort the plot to get it in. Everyone tends to do it." And finally, he gives advice he assumes the Harvard students won't need: "Be connected...
Suddenly, your other courses will fade in importance. You will skip some for weeks at a time. Those professors and TFs who allow seniors writing theses to skip or postpone mid-terms and papers are greatly appreciated. Those who insist on interrupting your precious thesis-writing time do not understand the extent of their cruelty...