Word: tending
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...back no longer ache. They start to look better in clothes," he says. "Those benefits become their own reinforcements, so you can turn off the incentive program." Employers and insurers could adopt a similar program, with monthly premiums falling along with the numbers on the scale. "We all tend to discount amorphous health benefits that will come sometime in the future," Volpp says. "So the key is to provide some immediate gratification...
...writing.6. FM: What do you read, besides the dictionary, today? JK: I like to read about the lives of plant collectors and mountaineers. I like accounts of people climbing mountains though I myself do not want to climb mountains. Generally people who write about their adventures in mountains tend to be good writers. 7. FM: Why the interest in plants?JK: I’m a gardener. My name is even registered in a collection. It’s actually the thing I’m most proud of: my name in plant collecting. It’s not even...
...Lowdown:Greven does not support the "just be yourself" method of dating - he recommends copying someone cool - but let's be honest: sometimes that method doesn't work (especially in elementary school, when "being yourself" often translates to "eating boogers"). He warns against passing love notes, as they tend to get intercepted; he's mercifully still a few years away from discovering the horrors of drunk dialing. Greven also believes that pretty girls are coldhearted and regular-looking girls make better girlfriends (is he even old enough to have heard Jimmy Soul's "If You Wanna Be Happy"?). He refers...
Washington scandals tend to build like snowdrifts. They start with a little flaky business, but if the wind starts blowing hard enough, they can swallow you before you know...
History may come full circle, fittingly and bittersweetly, if, during his confirmation hearings, Shinseki says his new agency needs far more personnel than the 240,000 it currently employs to tend to the human carnage...