Word: suggestions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have him under 24-hour suicide watch at the jail as the proceedings pause while the experts have a chance to size up his mental state. And through it all, he will probably go on insisting he is not insane even as he manages with each successive gesture to suggest otherwise...
Does that mean it can't go on? That stocks must finally tumble in 1998? No. Perhaps the market's bounds will keep stretching like the elastic belt on your holiday trousers. But it does suggest that the risk of a retraction is more acute. A stiff sell-off last week--the worst New Year's start in seven years--underscores that point. And with Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan now spouting off about possible deflation in the economy, it may pay to favor bonds for a while. I'd certainly be slow to invest any new wads of cash...
...have come up with various solutions to the anarchy of our streets and highways. We could legislate it (lower speed limits, build more roads to relieve congestion), adjudicate it (more highway cops, stiffer penalties), regulate it (more elaborate licensing procedures) or educate it away (mandatory driver's ed). Others suggest an option perhaps more typical of America circa 1998: therapize...
Brown found that if the subjects are encouraged to guess a word, they give words with the same stresses and syllables as the word they cannot remember. Brown used this study to suggest that language is stored more by its rhythmic qualities than its syntax or meaning...
...include a supplemental section focused on the poor condition of the slaves held there. New Orleans recently removed Washington's name from a public elementary school out of sensitivity to black students. If this process of retrospective condemnation continues, our currency may soon require quite a facelift. May I suggest Jesse Jackson for the dollar bill...