Word: statement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cashiers take your first name during the order, as if to imply a more "personal" connection to the customer, while staring down at the register during the entire transaction. I have encountered another type of rudeness at this establishment, but one not endemic to restaurants--that of the flip statement inclined to make you feel more comfortable, but which only ends up turning you off. I have often walked in there wearing, along with several others, a tuxedo, to which I always receive the question, asked with a smirk, "Hey, what are you celebrating?" I am tempted, by this point...
...Depends on your definition of naked. Last year during the primal scream I participated in running wearing a suit and tie to make a statement about modern society in the sense that which of us is truly naked. It was sort of a "Where's Waldo" thing, this person amongst all the naked, in a more literal sense, people...
...later e-mail message to employees, Kline amended her earlier statement, writing that the first message "referenced units that were likely candidates for an initial move...this announcement of the units may have been premature...
...Arafat is used to disparagement; she has received little else from her own people in the nine years since she married the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The latest scandal, though, provides a new low, with her husband's office compelled to issue a statement disavowing her. Even Suha's mother, activist Raymonda Tawil, took the opportunity to throw a punch: "She is so independent," Tawil told Israeli TV. "She has proved [she has] no mother, no husband. 'I am Suha...
...week to protest a decision by the Israeli government to allow the construction of a mosque beside the Basilica of the Annunciation, where Christians believe the Virgin Mary received word that she would bear the Son of God. The Vatican criticized the Israeli decision and in a strongly worded statement accused the "political authorities [of] fomenting division." The Israeli government reacted angrily, condemning the Vatican statement and saying it was only trying to "lower tensions" between Christians and Muslims. The controversy has strained relations between Israel and the Vatican and may complicate preparations for a visit by the Pope planned...