Word: uh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just what builds that magic bond, saying it's neither time nor activities spent together but simply the intensity of the involvement. "It's more than the physical presence of parents, the number of hours a day they're in the home. It's their emotional availability," says Resnick. Uh-oh. Are we spending $25 million to recycle the old saw about quality time, the one that says to the parent trying to make partner at the law firm, "Don't worry if you spend more time with your clients than with your child. Just bear down like a freight...
...home, turn on your TV and find newsman Daniel Schorr insulting you. Your ballpoint pen leaks all over your expensive shirt. You are given keys but not told what they unlock. Then things get nasty. Someone is framing you, trying to drown you, shooting at you. Uh-oh. It's dawning on you: this "game" is not a game...
...material comes from peeking at, say, tomorrow's Washington Post headlines and running them today. Though he doesn't like to talk about it, he's got a couple of top-secret passwords that allow him to sneak into the internal computer networks of media powerhouses and, uh, window-shop among the works in progress. In addition, a network of tipsters, many of them reporters looking for a little advance buzz, regularly feed him leads...
...individual's estate is exempt from federal estate tax. But, he says, "like most people, I didn't really focus on it. Then I sat down to do the math [on how much of his estate might go to the IRS rather than to his two sons] and said, 'Uh-oh, that's a big tax bite...
...CANDIDATE] ORRIN HATCH SENATE JUDICIARY CHAIRMAN [SIGN OF RUNNING] He's been whispering it himself--hoping someone will listen [PLAUSIBILITY FACTOR] Uh, oh, making friends with Ted Kennedy on health care [WANTS TO REMIND US OF:] Honest Abe [ACTUALLY REMINDS US OF:] Borin' Orrin...