Word: solidities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the dismissal bell rings at Boston high school, 10th-grader Shante Bodley's day has only just begun. Her afternoons, like those of most students, are often booked solid. For Bodley, it's not debating practice or piano lessons that keep her busy but rather a $6.25-an-hour job cooking at a convention center. After her shift ends at 6 p.m., she must baby-sit for her five-year-old niece, often until 10 p.m. Only then does she begin to think about hitting the books. "I have too many other responsibilities, and I can't focus...
...mother was trying to make a new start. She had a solid job at U-Haul and a duplex in a middle-class neighborhood. She recently told B.J.'s father that she "was finally getting somewhere in life." Patrolmen watched her place last year for a few days, but police say she called them off. It was intrusive and, she reportedly said, conspicuous. In the icy clime of Bridgeport, the coldest truth about these murders may be that there was little that could have been done to prevent them...
...this corner the old tech champion, weighing in at $235 billion in market capitalization, built on decades of solid earnings: Intel. And in the other corner the new tech challenger, having briefly hit $50 billion in market cap last week, and with dynamite earnings potential: Yahoo. These two heavyweights, by coincidence, held overlapping conference calls last week to discuss their fourth-quarter earnings reports with investment professionals. Intel is a bellwether because of its ubiquity in personal computers, so it has always drawn the bigger group of acolytes--until this year. Yahoo muscled in with runaway revenue projections, and suddenly...
...Everyone I spoke to in the department thought my reasons for not writing a thesis were solid, and when I finally made the decision, they were supportive," she says...
...titles of every other book Hume wrote; don't just say Medieval cathedrals, name nine. Think up a few specific examples of "contemporary decadence," like Natalie Wood. If you can't come up with titles, try a few sharp metaphors of your own; they at least have the solid clink of pseudo-facts...