Word: strides
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Struggling for some personal space in my middle seat and sulking about the upgrade to business class that never materialized, I began to think that we've taken certain economic pains, such as gasoline prices, in stride, while longer-term ones, like the housing market, have us deeply concerned. I have another theory, also related to flying: the health of the airline industry is directly reflected by the quality and quantity of food available in flight. On that basis things are bad, really bad, but they have been for as long as I can remember. Until we're all served...
Given the ubiquity of air travel, we're all expected to take jet lag in our stride these days, and be able to head straight from the red-eye to the morning's first appointment with barely a pause. In an age of deep-vein thrombosis and security scares, to be worried about mere jet lag even seems a little frivolous. But this isn't being fair on our systems: your mind may be jumping from the third coffee you've gulped since landing, but fatigue, dehydration and insomnia are the body's reminders of how testing being strapped into...
...shock for fully thirty seconds—stiller than Mitt Romney when he’s ambushing varmints on the hunt. A paparazzi-snapped candid of a Bay State hero’s dastardly betrayal stared me in the face. Patriots quarterback Tom Brady had been photographed mid-stride, smugly bedecked in a Yankees cap. What treachery...
...recognize and empathize with the people we walk past, who seem to be there every day alone with cups outstretched on the street, students should also recognize that there is a large population of homeless people who get up for work every morning at 5 a.m. and walk in stride with us without asking for change or pity...
...steam-turbine business in Görlitz, a provincial city on the Neisse River, which divides Germany and Poland. Kleinfeld walked into a meeting with about 200 of the division's staff, shook a few hands and launched into a pep talk in German. As he started to hit his stride, many of the division's top executives looked on dumbfounded. Then Rene Umlauft, the division CEO, intervened, waving his hand at Kleinfeld and forcing him to stop midsentence. "Excuse me, Mr. Kleinfeld," said Umlauft. "But you can't speak German here. They don't understand. You have to speak English...