Word: tom
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...addition to resigning his mastership Friday,Lasaga was granted indefinite leave from hisprofessorial duties, according to Tom P. Conroy,acting director of public affairs at Yale...
Problem: You start going steady with a hottie named Tom Exenberger and his parents very much want to meet you. They decide to take you and Tom out to dinner at the fancy club they belong to. Your brand-new sleek-looking black dress is coming off great and things are going smoothly until just after the appetizer, when you accidentally, and quite loudly, release some gas you've been trying to hold in for the past half hour. Yuck! Here's what to do to get out of this jam while saving face...
Possible Solutions: The last thing you want to do is give Tom's dad the impression that you are a rude or inconsiderate guest (remember girls: boys listen to their fathers). Quickly divert attention from yourself by looking at Tom's mother and say in a disgusted but playfully amused tone, "Oh, Mrs. Exenberger, SICK!" Hopefully she will enjoy the joke at her expense just as much as the rest of the group...
Zero proved to be the right price. In the three months since E.C. adopted its Tom Sawyer model (customers will grow your business if you can seduce them into painting fences for you), the number of active palaces has soared from 300 to more than 1,000. And that's not counting the thousands of unregistered sites E.C. isn't yet able to track. Without spending a penny on marketing, says Samuels, he's been able to boost the number of downloaded site-hosting servers to more than 15,000. The number of Palace users, in turn, has jumped from...
Unless we are saved by the Tom Harkin Rule. In 1992 Iowa Senator Tom Harkin decided to seek the presidency; his fellow Democrats left the Hawkeye State to the native Hawkeye. While that left Iowa's hoteliers and restaurateurs in despair, it liberated a few thousand of us from the joys of standing ankle-deep in frozen mud while a candidate talked to four shivering Iowans, seven cows and 35 camera crews...