Word: training
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...demons with an arsenal of firepower, kids manipulate a group of cloyingly cute critters whose primary form of battle is a glorified version of rock, paper, scissors. There are no guns, no blood--no one even dies. Players choose a starter Pokemon (short for pocket monster), then nurture and train it to battle other monsters using such "weapons" as water, fire and electricity. After defeating a foe, the original monster becomes more powerful. The aim is to become a "master trainer" by vanquishing all 150 challengers...
...meant we got to have a two-week training cycle without the disruption of a race or a weigh-in," Fallows said. "That takes a lot of energy of you. Not having a weigh-in meant we could train all of Thursday, Friday and Saturday...
Surprisingly enough, it couldn't have come sooner. Just as the gravy train was about to make its last stop, and we were on our way to turn in FM glory for a required year-long withdrawal, our last issue makes its debut, sending us back to the depths of the Harvard library system to somehow salvage our grades and non-hyphenated Class of 2000 status. Truth is, this semester, we became FM, and everything else fell by the wayside...
BOSTON--Amid the packed crowds waiting for the train to arrive at T stops throughout the city, impromptu performers and entrepreneurial guitar players set up shop, hoping for coins or song requests...
This is something new in American politics, but it didn't start with Littleton. It has been in train for many months or maybe longer, and it crosses party lines. A bipartisan consensus--that holy grail of establishmentarians everywhere--has been reached that politicians can no longer concern themselves merely, even primarily, with the workaday stuff of politics: marginal tax rates, crime control, defense expenditures, environmental and labor laws, the international balance of power. Our politicians are transcending politics. They are turning their attention, for better or for worse, to matters of the human heart...