Word: uh
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...routine sounded like this: "Why, that dumb n-----....." Then the speaker would realize he was talking to someone (probably a Yankee), who might not be in harmony with going around saying "n-----." So the speaker might backpedal, with an unction of benevolence: "Uh, 'cose, you know, I don't mean nuthin' by that. (Squinting now into the middle distance, with a philosophical air; if outdoors, he might even spit speculatively.) "The way I figure, they'se white n------ as well as black...
...common way to target relief is to create income thresholds. The existing code has some two dozen. Among them: converting a traditional IRA to a Roth (can't do it if you make $100,000), making deductible contributions to a Roth (uh-uh, not if you're single and earning $95,000 or a couple earning $160,000), and taking HOPE scholarship and Lifetime Learning credits (limit: $40,000, singles; $80,000, couples). Bush can't just dump the thresholds. Democrats would scream: Tax cut for the rich...
...team of scientists set up a field trial of two transgenic lines?UH SunUP and UH Rainbow?and by 1996, the verdict had been rendered. The nontransgenic plants in the field trial were a stunted mess, and the transgenic plants were healthy. In 1998, after negotiations with four patent holders, the papaya growers switched en masse to the transgenic seeds and reclaimed their orchards. "Consumer acceptance has been great," reports Rusty Perry, who runs a papaya farm near Puna. "We've found that customers are more concerned with how the fruits look and taste than with whether they are transgenic...
...WILL ALWAYS...UH, HOW'S THAT...
...answer to such questions turned out to hover somewhere between "Maybe" and "Uh, no." The lesson of the past three decades, since Minimalism hove on the horizon (soon to be followed by Conceptual Art, which even got rid of the cinder blocks and left only a residue of words), is that in art people love rarity, singularity, fully realized handcraft, fine materials and interesting content--the last not to be confused with mere storytelling. To most of them a pile of bricks a la Carl Andre is just that, a pile of bricks, and nothing, especially nothing written...