Word: tick
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...choice; he asks them what they think "new improved" labels mean, and then tells them. Most of all, and best of all, he goes to finicky lengths to test the extravagant claims of those commercials that everyone loves to hate. Will a Bic still flick? Will a Timex still tick...
...putdown, an undisguised request that Nicholson find a more suitable calling. But for Nicholson, it was a pat on the back. He had made a movie from his gut, and had obviously conveyed his inner self. Smoking grass, hysterical high school girls, and drifting heads are what make him tick. He only became an actor because, "all the chicks I liked were doing [theater]" in high school. And he only pursued it as a career because he despised school too much to follow up his high SATs. So the drifting head went to California, smoking weed and politicking...
Here, honesty and trust are the keys, without them we would not be able to survive. You cannot help but feel close to all the other dudes who are going through the same thing as you are. That's what makes this place tick...
...reveals what makes you tick...
...other big carriers were drawn in. Starting Oct. 1, United plans to slash its transcontinental rates by as much as 44%, lowering a first-class tick et from New York to the West Coast from $1,340 to $750. Complained one United official: "People are charging fares that do not cover costs. But you have a choice of being competitive or giving up a large slice of the market...