Word: swearing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Remember how hard you prayed in March? Please, God, give me just one little rally in tech stocks. I'll sell what I have left, I swear, and never again commit the sins of underdiversification and speculation. Well, you can throw that pledge on the scrap heap of desperate promises never kept. Tech is torrid. Again. You want in. Again. Yet this could turn into Bubble II, a sequel with nearly as much punch as the original. That's not what anyone wants to hear after a yearlong, tech-led bust that wiped out $5.2 trillion of stock-market wealth...
...Cleavage SOME OTHER PRIMATE SPECIES SWEAR...
...nothing in his study suggests that he believes homosexuality has any place in a manual of disorders. The new work, however, does feel oddly out of step with mainstream thinking. Most scientists stress that everything from brain architecture to environment help determine sexuality. While gays may be able to swear off one kind of sex and grimly slog away at another, that doesn't alter their basic orientation. "It's possible to change almost any human behavior," says geneticist Dean Hamer of the National Institutes of Health. "But changing the underlying mechanism is a different matter." A study presented...
...learn not to swear,” Mitchnick said, “but to betray the trust of the people you work with? For Michael [Lawrence] to [forward the “fuck” email to Personnel] was treacherous...
...when I plug in a new peripheral, something all too often goes horribly wrong. My computer sputters, chokes and begins firing off error messages. Then it becomes eerily silent, unresponsive to anything but the emergency-restart button. After what feels like days on the phone with tech support, I swear never to mess with my PC again...