Word: stuck
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...President you worked for in the '90s once put it) "work hard and play by the rules." Nowadays, I suspect that a lot of us, who try to do exactly that, believe we're being played for suckers. We work hard, play by the rules - and get stuck with the bill. And as this recession deepens - and the economic pain spreads far and wide - that perception is dangerous. I'm just a guy who lives in Shanghai, but from a recent, relatively long visit to the U.S., I think a potentially poisonous populism - a very, very angry populism - lurks just...
...peeves, as you could see, is pretty extensive. Statistically, if you’re reading this at a table filled with people, I probably hate around 50 percent of them. Odds are good its you.So when it’s 12:08 p.m. and I’m stuck behind you, or if you’re trying to show me how brilliant your small sibling is because it can recognize its fingers, or if you’re in the carrel in front of me breathing like you just ran a 5k, you better hope...
...canal of America. The rock was identified as the pilgrim’s first landing site—121 years after they landed and 24 miles away from the actual site. As an American, Bilotti of course felt a mystical pull to the rock, like a piece of tape stuck to another piece of tape. Yet bizarrely, the most significant monument in American history did not impress this philistine.Chiappini then took Bilotti to a charming local bistro, Papa Gino’s, to sample the region’s gastronomical delights. Despite Chiappini procuring both the traditional thin-crust...
...chair of the UC Election Commission, Steven T. Cupps ’10, was stuck at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago late into last night, and said he expected the campaigns to adhere to the honor system for the night. [CORRECTION APPENDED...
...shut down two airports. The group cancelled plans to block the entrance to the military's airport in Bangkok this morning after it was told that ministers would not use it to reach Chiang Mai. Several ministers did, in fact, leave for Chiang Mai from that military airfield. Others, stuck in Bangkok's notorious traffic jams, missed the flight...