Word: soaks
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...when they grow tall). Unlike Jill, though, Kate is a bit player in her own household, which is run by a nanny wielding absolute power. Kate doesn't know her daughter's best friend or how much her son weighs. She's a victim of reverse intimacy; her associates soak up so much time that she stays in touch with her real friends through increasingly heartfelt messages in which she cancels plans yet again. Like many professionals who leap a social class, she wonders--when her child demands pasta instead of canned SpaghettiOs--if "I've traveled this far...only...
...Cover the grist with hot water in order to change the grain to sugar. Soak the grain for an hour at 160 degrees Fahrenheit until the mixture is the consistency of oatmeal. Stir occasionally...
...than cause brief setbacks to the airline industry's fortunes, 9/11 and the recession exposed a raft of deeper problems: high fixed costs, a convoluted fare structure, a boom in online bargain hunting by consumers and the growing disaffection of business travelers and their bosses. The full-service airlines' soak-the-rich business model, which has always prized maximizing revenue over operational efficiency, looks all but busted...
Sheryl Crow's Soak Up the Sun wants very badly to be your classic rock song of the summer. The title is begging for it, but the lyrics--"I don't have digital/ I don't have diddley squat"--are as empty as a high school yearbook quote, and the chorus sounds like an orange-juice jingle. But who doesn't go around singing the occasional orange-juice jingle...
...media. While growing up here, I harbored violent objections to displaying my everything to a bunch of naked strangers. Only as an achy, fatigued adult has it begun to sink in: What better way to slow the insane pace of this jam-packed country than with a good, long soak...