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Word: skips (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...would say you need to abide by this code of conduct, on the other hand they would keep asking for greater price reductions. Then there’d be an allusion of compliance because actual compliance is not financially feasible.” Steffan also said licensees would often skip quickly from one foreign factory to another to avoid regulation.“We would get complaints from workers in factories where we thought we’d be able to do something,” she said. “We’d find that we couldn?...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Sweats Apparel Plan | 10/2/2006 | See Source »

DICAPRIO: There's something about Marty's directing where if his films come on, I watch them every time. It's a rare thing, but you do find these details that you've never seen before. He's obsessive about authenticity and minutiae that you may skip the first time, and then--Oh, my God! Slicing the garlic meant something! They weren't just slicing garlic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gang's All Here | 10/1/2006 | See Source »

...most brilliant economists at work in the academy today, he’s certainly the star of his generation...a genius,” Gates said.Some of the initiatives lined up for the Institute are related to Fryer’s area of research. “Skip and I have a ton of ideas in our head,” he said. The two are hoping to start programs aimed at closing the achievement gap between black and white students. “We’re trying to understand and perhaps help racial differences in test scores...

Author: By Lulu Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Go North, Young West? That's The Af-Am Talk | 9/29/2006 | See Source »

...wingman for the charitable, yet brief, grabbing of coffee with the awkward kid from section. I don’t want the yuppie strollers and biodegradable footprint-patterned carafes of Peet’s—give me plain cups and the cacophony of the Square any day. I skip the Mather shuttle so I can visit you on my walk to the Yard—without you, how can I rationalize coming to lecture 15 minutes late? I am always surprised by your unique and occasionally bizarre ice cream variety—if you leave...

Author: By Kristina M. Moore, | Title: Hi, I’m Kristina | 9/27/2006 | See Source »

...speak, but before he could even get a word out, the new presiding judge told him to keep quiet. But Saddam was already on a tirade. He waved a folded yellow paper in his hand, saying it was a written request asking the court to allow him to skip the rest of the trial as long as acting head judge Mohammad al-Ubeidy was presiding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Scene: Saddam Tries Another Trial Boycott | 9/26/2006 | See Source »

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