Word: useful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Would you ever use poker night to get women...
...decided that I could really use an "-ism." An "-ism" is something that was defined for me a long time ago by my high school European history teacher. Nationalism, Socialism, Communism--"-isms" were things that could make a bunch of disgruntled peasants forget their gripes about the government and focus their energies on their hate for other countries, he explained. "-Isms" were things that people didn't mind going to war for. Meanwhile, in the back of the classroom, my neighbor claimed that he could really get this country going by dispersing the seeds of "j-ism" to the population...
...need to be happy. I want to want to pour my heart into something, to lay everything I care about on the line. I want to run out into the pouring rain half-naked and scream at the sky. I want to stop asking my boss if I can use the bathroom, and take a bus to the Pacific Coast in Mexico. I want to chip away at a wall for 19 years and watch as the final layer cracks and crumbles before my eyes. I want to reference a cinematic epiphany not from the "Shawshank Redemption...
...reception isn't good news for King's family, who are hoping to use the decision to help push for a new federal investigation that, it believes, would uncover a conspiracy involving the FBI and the Army. "That's just not going to happen," says TIME national correspondent Jack E. White. "The assassination occurred in 1968, so many witnesses are dead, have changed their stories or have failing memories. There's almost no reason to think that a new investigation could produce any new insight...
Many civil rights advocates have long been troubled by the apparent inequities of Internet use, and May's Commerce report bears out their fears: 47 percent of whites own computers, but fewer than half as many blacks do. And, according to the study, it's not just economics that's keeping computers out of reach for so many minority kids. A child from a low-income white family is three times more likely to have Internet access than a child from a black family with a comparable income - and four times more likely than a Hispanic child. That disparity, says...