Word: tad
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Barney, whom we happened to encounter on our White House tour, was really just as exciting as shaking the hand of George W. Bush, in my heart I couldn’t blame the scholars for finding the whole thing just a bit disappointing, or just a tad disrespectful...
...Samuelson, 35, of Anchorage, finished her 40-min. lunch-break workout and then sat down for a lean buffalo burger before heading back to her accounting office. "I like that I can go right in, all sweaty, and eat a nice lunch, not just a salad," says Samuelson. Similarly, Tad Thornton, 26, has made eating at the Lakeshore Athletic Club in Broomfield, Colo., part of his routine. After his swimming and spinning workouts, he ducks into the club's new restaurant for meals like pesto pizza fresh out of chef Marilyn Kretsinger's wood hearth. "I eat here pretty much...
...environmentally friendly sport-utility vehicle? It's a tree hugger's dream, right up there with a fat-free cheeseburger and a healthy cigarette. So when Ford offered me an early test drive in its 2005 Escape Hybrid SUV, I was, suffice it to say, a tad skeptical...
...reluctance to go public, even though the two founders, former Stanford computer-science graduate students who together will own about 32% of the company's shares, could emerge worth some $4 billion each. In a folksy manifesto that's part of the filing, the founders liken themselves, a tad arrogantly, to Warren Buffett, saying they will take risks as though Google were a private company and will offer no guidance on predicted earnings...
Deep Pockets’ twists and romance ring a little too close to home; readers might find the famed professor-saucy undergrad subplot a tad familiar. But Barnes swears “there was no particular Harvard hanky-panky in my mind.” Rather, she explains, “College is a time when a student can leave home, go to a new city, make new friends…omit entire sections of a life. Invent an entire history...