Word: stayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people are so desperate that a lot of people don't stay to fight," she says...
...hard to watch that game because I knew they would be tired, and they would need that extra person in order to stay in the game," she says, "I knew that Arkansas was an easier team [than Stanford], and it just felt so hard to let [my teammates] down in a way. But there's a place for everything, and I can't linger on that too much...
Later, we head back to base camp and go for a swim in the river, where Mittermeier proves that scientists are different from you and me. He remembers to warn me to stay clear of the rocks where electric eels play, but he neglects to mention that piranhas are sharing the water with us. When this finally occurs to him, he adds, "Not to worry. Piranhas only go after open wounds." I hold up my hand with the cut on it. "Oh, yeah," he says...
...expect your pay-check to follow suit anytime soon. Merit raises in 1999 will average just around 4%, according to a recent survey by Buck Consultants. As an alternative, ask the boss for a bonus or stock options; more and more firms are offering them as incentives to stay...
After graduating in 1979, he headed for the Amazon and began visiting shamans, some of whom let him stay for a while as a student medicine man. He slept in thatched huts, ate delicacies like boiled rat, suffered vampire-bat bites and was nearly electrocuted by a giant eel. And he collected, as fast as he could, hundreds of plants that supplied ingredients for the shamans' medical arsenal...