Word: talked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know that's code for 'we're going to do it,'" Forbes said. When asked how he would respond to critics who wonder what would happen to these private investment accounts if the market were to go down, Forbes said, "'Risky' is Washington talk for 'You're going to take away our power...
...conversation is challenging. Now of course, I have unconditional love for my family, but love must be nourished. And for many years, I thought that nourishing this love with my other family members was just plain easier. I can gamble with my dad over a game of backgammon or talk to my mom at the kitchen table--both things I cannot do with Sherri...
...multiple kitchens.) Everybody we meet in the halls looks just like Shemmer--twenty-something guys in blue shirts, khakis, dress shoes. With all the backslapping and put-downs, we could be in the MAC as easily as a corporate headquarters. We meet a temp in the kitchen and the talk inevitably drifts to fraternity life at college...
...dessert. The staff gathers around black tables in the conference room, and for half an hour the office feels like a dining hall. Cliques form in different corners--secretaries over here, a small group of partners towards the back, and two big tables of analysts and associates. The stock talk continues: "Did you see Zamba? Good call, man." A group gathers around Shemmer, who's animatedly describing the movie he saw last weekend...
Chall, who retired as a professor of education emeritus in 1991, was one of the first psychologists to talk of reading as a learning process with developmental stages...