Word: wade
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Certainly, off-line merchants did their best to get rid of us. We've been going to the same malls with the same stores for a generation now, sipping Orange Juliuses as we wade past the Limited on the way to the food court. If you were cool, if you "got it," you shopped online: it was convenient, it was competitively priced, it was fun. Web retailers like Amazon could even engage the intellect, making recommendations and offering a venue for shared literary criticism. When was the last time a salesclerk offered that kind of guidance? "People are more...
...Bryan: My point is that, nobody in the organization wanted to represent an organization at any retreat at any cabinet meeting because it was way too much bureaucracy to wade through; there was quorum this and I hereby second the third motion to consider the fifty-fifth motion of sub-section 47b. And also there were all sorts of enforced meetings at times when nobody really wanted to have meetings for the sake of having a meeting and having an itinerary and free pizza. It was so stupid. The organization should be streamlined in every program...
...McCain has softness of his own. Social conservatives are particularly suspicious of him. While admiring his service to his country, some have been worried about his commitment to the unborn ever since he told the San Francisco Chronicle last August that he would not work to overturn Roe v. Wade. Others cite his willingness to meet with gay Republicans--though he opposes gay marriage and gay adoption--as a possible indication of openness to the "gay-rights agenda...
...notable exception of McCain--attacked frontrunner Bush for his politics and policies. Bauer, comparing the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision to the Dred Scott decision a century earlier, challenged Bush to choose a pro-life running mate. Forbes took aim at Bush's freshly minted economic policy--unveiled last Wednesday in Iowa--charging that it provided too few tax cuts of too small a size...
...sphere, their carefully developed approaches are stonewalled--they are asked to conform to the increasingly rote systems of teaching. The attempts of education programs like Summerbridge to foster novel approaches to teaching are continually nullified by the teach-to-the-test approach that transforms teachers into machines. Richard L. Wade, Headmaster of the prestigious Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia, refers to this trend as "packaging our schools." This process of frustrating the ambitions of would-be teachers perpetuates and validates the saying, "Those who can, do; those who can't, teach...