Word: touched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With gestures like that, she became a walking riposte to the palace, with its narrow, dated code of royal behavior. As has been pointed out many times, she was, if anything, a throwback to the Queen Mother, with her common touch and effortless rapport with ordinary people. When senior courtiers tried to limit Diana or downgrade her, they just looked pompous...
Pompous, New York Times reading, out of touch, excessively talented, soon to be cuff-link wearing, over-achievers. If you wander out of the capsule of academia, you'll find that's what a lot of people think about Harvard students...
What we are asking is that you at least give randomization a chance. What are you so afraid of? The ten minute walk? Losing touch with the friends you made freshman week? Well they're not really such good friends if a mere ten minutes can keep you from ever seeing or speaking to them again. You're all in this together; you're all being randomized instead of just a few unfortunate groups. Sure, it sucks to trek home at three in the morning, and even at noon in the rain and snow, but it's really not cause...
...mosquitoes, abundant in the rainy season, could transfer the blood-borne pathogen to chimps--or to humans. But, cautions Heymann, that's no more than speculation. "We're still in the dark," he says. Meanwhile, officials in Gabon are playing it safe. Last week they warned villagers not to touch dead animals found in the forest or kill any that are "behaving strangely." Until researchers know what they're dealing with, that's probably prudent. As the villagers of Mayibout now know too well, Ebola seldom gives victims a second chance...
...When I started in the industry, 20 years ago," Betancourt says, "spent fuel was considered the ass end of the fuel cycle. No one wanted to touch it. Everyone wanted to be on the sexy side, inside the reactor vessel, where the action and danger were. No one noticed fuel pools until we started running out of room in them...