Word: slide
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that Pam had been spending up to six hours of her workday sending e-mail to friends and playing electronic games. The consequences of Pam's compulsion extend beyond the work time lost. "Sometimes I forget where I'm at, and I might put the wrong solution on a slide and blow the experiment for the day," she admits. "I have many times told myself I'm not going to use the computer today," Pam reflects. "Then I say, 'Maybe just one game...
...mandolin and violins to break up the thickness of guitar, bass and drums characterizing the rest of this album. The strangest quality of the music of Dizzy Up the Girl, however, is just how darn upbeat it is. Most songs move to quick-paced rhythms and, at the chorus, slide up scales for an almost uplifting effect. The music, in fact, tends to belie the plaintiveness of the lyrics. How the Goo Dolls write something so dolorous as, "See the young man sitting/In the old man's bar/Waiting for his turn to die" into a tune so whistleable as "Broadway...
...Young--It seemed like this award would once again go to Greg Maddux, but he went into a late slide. Now, we have to look elsewhere. And while Kevin Brown (18-7, 2.38 ERA, 257 K) and Tom Glavine (20-6, 2.47 ERA) both had great seasons, San Diego reliever Trevor Hoffman was the best pitcher...
Saves: Har--Dupuis 8; Pen--O'Connor 3.Seth H. PerlmanCrimsonDOWN AND DIRTY: A Harvard playerperforms a slide tackle as sophomore MATT EDWARDS(15) looks...
...airlines' secretive and sometimes high-handed manner doesn't help. Passengers are routinely herded onto planes and only afterward told they must endure an hourlong air-traffic delay. Big discount fares are advertised widely, but prices seem to slide up and down with little explanation. Nor will the airlines reveal how many discount seats are allocated on flights (the number varies according to demand for the flight, with the goal of maximizing revenue). And the airlines have drained most of the spontaneity from the nation's leisure-time travel, with those money-saving but anxiety-producing "nonrefundable" fares, which require...