Word: snap
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...harshly criticized for her unusually high visibility during FDR's administration. As for the budget, Clinton said that if congressional Republicans would only put off resolving key policy differences on Medicare, Medicaid and the environment until after this year's presidential election, an agreement could be reached in a snap...
...characters. Oh, sure, they have problems: their marriages turn drab, their careers seem stalled, all their good intentions cannot protect them from the knowledge that they are, every day, growing older. Their response to these travails tends to involve exhaustive introspection and maybe a psychiatrist or a hobby to snap them out of their blahs. They are as harmless as they are uninteresting...
...some people better able to "snap out of it" and get on with the task at hand? Again, given sufficient self-awareness, people develop coping mechanisms. Sadness and discouragement, for instance, are "low arousal" states, and the dispirited salesman who goes out for a run is triggering a high arousal state that is incompatible with staying blue. Relaxation works better for high-energy moods like anger or anxiety. Either way, the idea is to shift to a state of arousal that breaks the destructive cycle of the dominant mood...
Compounding their usual turnover problems, the Ram's special teams seemed to be asleep at the wheel against the Big Green. Fordham botched a punt snap, which led to Dartmouth's first touchdown and a 6-0 first-quarter lead. The Big Green also blocked two Ram punts...
...depressed reading Wright's article that I could hardly finish it. Science now confirms what my girlfriend told me when she dumped me: I am an evolutionary wreck. Cro-Magnon is the term she used. I had to watch Mary Poppins twice to snap out of it. CARROLL MILLER Lufkin, Texas Via E-mail...