Word: suck
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beginning of the encore, Smith apologized for the short length of the set (as a result of having two opening-acts to suck away time) and gave the audience two tracks that went way back into the Cure's infancy. "10:15 Saturday Night" and "Killing and Arab" reached back to 1979 and ended a triumphant night for the Cure. Although the band's popularity has waned from their 80s heyday, the Cure proved that their musical prowess...
...State Department--many for nonviolent protests. A teacher who tossed eggs at a portrait of Mao, for instance, is serving a life term. Prison conditions are abysmal: a former inmate has said that new arrivals at a facility in Hunan, in southeast China, are forced to suck feces from a straw...
...hyped the digital revolution more unabashedly than the geeks at Wired Ventures. But even as Silicon Valley's high rollers were partying in Las Vegas, the way-new media upstart was laying off staff: 33 in all. There were also reports, denied by spokesfolks, that its cheeky Webzine Suck would be next, or that the whole company was on the block. It was, in Wired-speak, a reality check...
...wasn't supposed to be this way. On the eve of the Pacific century, Asia's two most powerful economies were supposed to be pumping out wealth for the rest of the world--not threatening to suck it dry. But banks in Japan and South Korea now groan with bad debts that could push both countries into deep, prolonged downturns. In Japan, public confidence is at a postwar low and nobody wants to spend a yen. Korea is cash strapped and politically rudderless, with a presidential election just four weeks...
...wearing shorts, you silently testify, "I'm so cool, I don't get hot." New England isn't that scalding anyway, so wear slacks and suck it up. After all, do you think the Bedouins roaming the Arabian deserts stop to buy shorts at the Gap? Of course not. (They buy pants...