Word: stillings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Still, if Gomes spends much of his day performing official duties, he devotes a large part of his schedule to spiritual counseling and casual conversation...
Four days after the term bill increase referendum failed, leaving next year's Undergraduate Council still strapped for funds, representatives argued last night over whether they should devote their limited resources to planning a blockbuster Springfest or to building a nest egg for student groups...
...these associations still ring true, but nowadays people don't need the crutch of group identity quite so much, and those of us who are very much into our music have mostly expanded beyond our initial categories. There are plenty of people who like Phish just because the music is good, and whose collections also include Miles Davis and the Go-Go's (well, maybe not the Go-Go's). The day I walked into my town's music store and bought both the new Indigo Girls album and the Beastie Boys' "Ill Communications," the clerk told...
...wrench in the works." Once Sunday's elections are over, Russia may be more inclined to seek a political solution. Seizing Grozny is, after all, primarily of symbolic importance, since most of the Chechen rebel forces have retreated intact into the mountains. But Putin may not want to still have his army deployed in a hostile guerrilla environment six months from now when he goes to the electorate to seek the presidency...
...Still, there remains a question of cause and effect: Do kids have ADHD because their brains don't produce enough dopamine, or do their brains not produce enough dopamine because of external factors? "Would this problem afflict our children if we were still out on the frontier battling elephants?" asks TIME science writer Christine Gorman. "Probably not." Many attribute the symptoms of ADHD - short attention span, fidgetiness, lack of motivation - to modernity's sensory overload: Perhaps the brain is merely compensating for the five hours of electronic media the average child absorbs each day. And we thought this information revolution...