Word: used
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stands now Bush has thrown down the gauntlet and the Democrats will have to address the debate on his terms. Will the public be treated to a substantial debate on the merits of testing and funding based on performance as well as other contentious issues such as the use of vouchers and charter schools...
...true, he laments. "Everybody knows their sign." People even use it to verify identity--Kirshner's underage son once got carded by a bartender who, examining his fake ID skeptically, quizzed him on his birthday and his sign. "It just goes to show," Kirshner jokes, "that's one thing astrology's good for-it provides a good question to ask as a bouncer...
...years ago. What that means is: astrologists aren't even talking about where the planets actually are. They're talking about where they are in this conventional picture of astrology, and where the sun and moon and the other planets are. They don't use the actual positions...
...reason I use examples like bars and bowling is that it's not just do-gooding things like voting or going to church. I want to convey that this is not that we've become evil and that we're no longer doing good. The evidence is just quite clear that we're doing less together...
...legislate the way people use language," he says. "Yes it's true that many languages are disappearing, but it will never happen that every person will speak exactly the same way. It's impossible. We may all speak English, but there will be an incredible variety...