Word: slacked
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Because of improvements, inventive ideas, setting appliances into cabinetry, we can integrate all these activities into one continuing, flowing space that merges through to the kitchen." The disappearance of interior walls leaves you wondering just what's holding the house up (relax--new building materials have taken up the slack), but it's part of a bigger design trend to bring what is inevitably called a good "flow" to the house. It's all about how these satellite areas connect to one another and the rest of the floor plan...
Pearson, a star columnist at the London Evening Standard, makes Kate one of those superwomen who think they would like a wife. But when Kate's husband Rich, a low-energy architect, picks up the household slack, she loses interest in him. She is hard-wired to want a hunter-gatherer and nearly has an affair with one, an alpha millionaire client. But she cheats on her boss instead, stealing "Illicit Mummy Time," which requires "the same lies to get away for the tryst, the same burst of fulfillment and, of course, the guilt...
What then can friends do if they want to remain on good terms with both parties? First, give it time, say therapists. Cut both spouses some slack until the waves of anger and grief subside a little. Let them know, gently, that you intend to be friends with each of them. "Early on in the separation, there are going to be strong feelings, and you need to be a shoulder to cry on," says the Rev. Scott Stevens, a licensed marriage and family therapist in Willimantic, Conn. "But if after a few months the venting is not getting better, tell...
...reaction was polarized. "Cut this good man some slack. He deserves another chance," wrote one reader. But, says Loren Ghiglione, dean of Northwestern University's journalism school, "here's somebody working for the most powerful news organization in Chicago. What he did was an abuse of personal power and an abuse of the newspaper he worked for." That's the rationale Tribune editors used too: "Staff members are forbidden to use their position at the newspaper to gain advantage in personal activities." They insist her age was irrelevant, which has led to more questions. Does this mean...
...review this week of its policy allowing outside actors to participate in Common Casting and Harvard productions. Despite the recent influx of non-Harvard actors participating in Common Casting, HRDC should keep its policy just the way it is—and Harvard should pick up the slack and increase theater opportunities and classes so that students have additional ways to get involved in drama...