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Word: unfit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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Purists scoff at multitools as gratuitous gadgetry, unfit for serious jobs, but they're missing the point. Multitools are about expecting the unexpected. When you and your buddies find yourselves locked out of your Honda Civic in the parking lot of TGI Friday's at 3 a.m., you want to be the guy who can fashion a crude lockpick using only a beer can and that wire-crimper thingy on your Leatherman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Leatherman for All Seasons | 4/1/2002 | See Source »

...life and choice, the right to have a baby is implicitly absolute. Saul Bellow's virility is celebrated when he becomes a father at 84, as is Larry King's when he has a baby at 65, months after angioplasty. Does a shortened life expectancy make a woman more unfit for motherhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dying To Have A Family | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

...every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. An Administration whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free student body...

Author: By Lauren E. Baer, | Title: A Declaration of Intellectual Independence | 2/25/2002 | See Source »

DeAraujo: I have to disagree with what was just said. Because I think that if he is continuously making comments that alienate most people, most Americans, mainstream, his peers, white people, then that could make him unfit. Okay, I’m actually kidding with some of those. But who is funding a University professorship? That guy you were talking to in the bathroom who is sending a million-dollar check...

Author: By Angie Marek, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: West Matters | 2/14/2002 | See Source »

...doubt Middle America takes Harvard seriously at all. I think it’s almost a liability, especially in the political sense, to say you went to Harvard. Al Gore, of course, tried to hide that. But I think the case is there that those comments could make West unfit to have such a prestigious position, to have such a huge platform. He has to be responsible for that platform. We talked earlier about President Summers discussing with his faculty about how to deal with September 11th. The president realizes that the Harvard name that they so zealously...

Author: By Angie Marek, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: West Matters | 2/14/2002 | See Source »

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