Word: slicing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...were a capitalist I would not give my employees health insurance with no deductible, which I do, including dental, and paid pregnancy leave. That's not called capitalism, that's called being a Christian and someone who believes in democracy, so that everyone should get a fair slice...
...itself seems the most likely way that disease would spread. Signs warning about things like plates seem laughably inadequate in this context. Follow these tips, they seem to claim, and one will be safe from danger. But if the student next to you fighting to reach the last pizza slice has H1N1, then you may be bound for UHS’s quarantine rooms, regardless of whether his plate is clean or whether he earned his point for Purell...
...making the effort, are we actually interested in talking or watching a movie or drinking or dancing with our peers on other campuses? As we all know, the Harvard bubble isn’t easy to pop. It’s possible that remaining in this slice of Cambridge seems simpler, where the perceived prestige of our institution doesn’t lead to uncomfortable conversations or awkward moments after someone drops the H-bomb. An alternative, less flattering explanation: Maybe Harvard people simply don’t have much interest in the rest of the population...
...detective genre has had to loosen up to accommodate Pynchon’s wild narrative loops and quixotic scenic fancies. When the dentist’s secretary pauses a plot-advancing conversation to ask Doc’s friend—“Excuse me, . . . is that a slice of pizza on your hat?” —the irksomeness of the interruption overshadows the humor of his response (“Oh wow, thanks man, I’ve been lookin [sic] all over for that…”)Some of the author?...
...ends on the street, Al Roker explains to Elmo that a community market is just “neighbors coming together to buy and sell things” and “make some extra money.” In a later scene—and a symbolic slice of the show’s spirit—one of the neighborhood youths explains to Grover that despite the ambiguity of the phrase, one can’t buy “community” at the “community market.” In fact, he goes...