Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CORPORATE executives who ordinarily trumpet the glories of the free market have few qualms about defending this massive subsidy and distortion of the free market. They say that business deals wouldn't happen if companies couldn't stick the taxpayers with part of the cost of their power lunches...
...postage stamp out of its perforations, coating one's tongue with glue and watching the stamp come unstuck along the edges? Sure enough, that ritual is now headed the way of the penny postcard. Last week the U.S. Postal Service introduced EXTRAordinary Stamps, a line of peel-and-stick, self-adhesive postage stamps billed as "the most thoroughly researched and tested issue in U.S. stamp history." The new 25 cents first-class stamps will be test-marketed for 30 days in Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, Dallas, Minneapolis and ten other cities. One possible sticking point for consumers: a booklet...
...section, students usually stick to plot summaries and close readings of the texts. Personal experiences play virtually no role in interpretation. But we still manage to have protracted discussions--employing several dozen "those people"--that usually skirt around the bigger social issues. For example, during a half-hour discussion of Carver's "Cathedral," nobody proposed that the story might be about prejudice. Instead we discussed the problems of communication between one man and his wife...
...seems that the 50 percent won't change the character [of the stereotyped houses]," said Peterson. "You'll just stick people in that wouldn't want to be part of that character," he added...
About the "MAKE BUCKS, NOT LOVE" bumper stickers which Professor Blumenthal would stick on the BMW s of our generation (and given our single-mindedness, we will, I read, all have them). To begin with, Professor Blumenthal assumes that the decision "not to crowd the other one" is necessarily selfish. On the one hand, the decision "not to crowd" is an economic reality. The American dream of living better than our parents, or living as well as our parents, simply requires more effort today than it did. The dual-career family, which only became the norm with our parents' generation...